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Marshall space centre

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Alabama’s ‘rocket city’ is the heart of US space travel. Musk’s Doge could be its demise

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Huntsville has long been a focal point of US aerospace and defence.

It is home to the Marshall Space Flight Centre the second largest Nasa field centre in the US .

The city plays host to the 3,843-acre Cummings Research Park .

Lockheed Martin , Boeing and Northrop Grumman all neighbouring one another.

Nasa workers worry their jobs could fall within the Department of Government Efficiency’s blast radius.

Huntsville , Alabama , voted 54 per cent in favour of Mr Trump , compared to 65 per cent statewide.

Huntsville is at the heart of US defence manufacturing and thousands of jobs tied to federal contracts.

Around 10 per cent of the city's 225,000 population work for the government and thousands more work in federal contracts tied to government contracts.

Former engineer volunteers at the Marshall Space Centre in his retirement.

He worked for 13 years building the fuel tanks that blasted astronauts into orbit.

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