The brigade’s new digs are on one of Fort Carson’s main streets. That puts the space soldiers amid their comrades in infantry and armor units.

“There’s no question that the 1st Space Brigade is part of the Fort Carson team,” the unit’s commander Col. Eric Little said at a ceremony to cut the ribbon on the new headquarters.

The Pentagon has plans to start the Space Force as soon as next year. Planners at Peterson Air Force Base, including some Army officers, are at work designing the service even as Congress debates its merits.

At a hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Republicans seemed warm to the idea, which has been pushed personally by President Donald Trump. The Trump administration contends that growing threats to American satellites from rivals, including Russia and China, drives the need for a service branch focused solely on space.

Senate Democrats, though, voiced concerns Thursday that the new service would increase bureaucracy and costs without making the country measurably safer.

Despite the cloudy future, the Army is celebrating bringing its space troops home to Fort Carson.

“It’s a great and fitting end to the Space Symposium to cut this ribbon and go back to our mission,” Dickinson said as he welcomed the brigade to its new home.