Texas Senator Ted Cruz will chair the Senate subcommittee with oversight over NASA's activities.
Cruz, a Republican, will chair the Senate's subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness, which oversees the space agency.
In past actions and speeches Cruz has expressed a desire the cut the agency's funding for climate change research, but his views on human spaceflight are less clear.
Cruz favors cutting government spending, but at the same time Texas is home to Johnson Space Center, with an annual budget of about $4.5 billion and nearly 12,000 civil servants and contractors.
The appointment is expected to be confirmed later this month.
Originally published by The Houston Chronicle.
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