FL And OH Republicans Want To Move NASA HQ

March 14, 2025 Politics, Republicans

Florida Politics reports:

Florida’s Senators are putting their muscle behind a Gov. Ron DeSantis priority regarding the future of NASA. U.S. Sens. Ashley Moody and Rick Scott are introducing the Consolidating Aerospace Programs Efficiently (CAPE) at Canaveral Act to move the headquarters of the space agency on the Space Coast.

“Establishing NASA’s headquarters within the Space Coast will bridge the bureaucracy gap from the top down and bring stakeholders together,” Moody said.

DeSantis said last month that he wants the proposed build in the nation’s capital stopped, in part, because “nobody shows up to work there anyways.” He thinks the project will end up “costing a billion” dollars, a spend not needed because “renovations” are already going on at Cape Canaveral.

Cleveland’s NBC affiliate reports:

With the lease on NASA’s current Washington D.C. headquarters set to expire in 2028, a group of Ohio lawmakers are lobbying for the agency to relocate to Cleveland.

In a letter to Vice President JD Vance and NASA Administrator Designate Jared Isaacman, a bipartisan delegation led by Rep. Max Miller (R-OH-7) and U.S. Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) put forth a case highlighting “the fiscal and operational advantages of moving NASA’s headquarters to Cleveland.”

The lawmakers point out that since Cleveland, home to NASA Glenn Research Center, offers a significantly lower cost of living and operating expenses than Washington, D.C., “relocating NASA HQ to Ohio would result in substantial savings for taxpayers while maintaining access to world-class aerospace research and development resources.”

It appears, for now at least, that NASA’s Mission Control will remain in Houston.



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