At a recently held budget hearing, Senators Ted Cruz and Eric Schmitt warned that the space agency is becoming too politicized.
. Cruz and Schmitt both stressed the urgency by highlighting China’s stated aim of sending humans to the Moon, emphasizing that the United States is once again engaged in a space race—a claim that Nelson himself has made on repeated occasions.
Nelson found himself on the other side of the table yesterday, as he previously served alongside Cruz on the Committee from 2013 to 2019. The NASA chief didn’t offer deep dives into the Senators’ questions, but to Cruz, he did say: “You and I in this committee have a different approach to what is happening to the Earth’s climate,” and it so happens that “NASA is in the middle of this.
addressing the challenges of climate change and promoting diversity. It’s a shame to witness these two Republicans attempting to drag the space agency back to the previous century.
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