Texas Republicans Want to Move NASA HQ to Houston to Save It From ‘Bureaucratic Micromanagement’

NASA’s lease for its headquarters building expires in 2028, and the agency is searching for a new space to house its workforce. As the agency explores options in Washington or the surrounding area, a group of Texas lawmakers has taken the opportunity to request that NASA headquarters be moved to Houston, Texas, to “reinvigorate our national space agency.” In a letter addressed to Donald Trump, the U.S. senators urged the president to relocate NASA’s headquarters from Washington D.C. to the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston when the current lease expires. The group of 29 Republican senators, led by Ted Cruz, argue that “as NASA’s leadership has languished in our nation’s capital, the core missions of this critical agency are more divided than ever before,” the letter reads. “This seismic disconnect between NASA’s headquarters and its missions has opened the door to bureaucratic micromanagement and an erosion of centers’ interdependence.” The senators claim that NASA’s he ... Read full article.