Representative Chris Van Hollen visits NASA Goddard Space Flight Center with Center Director Chris Scolese.

Representative Chris Van Hollen visits NASA Goddard Space Flight Center with Center Director Chris Scolese.

Representative Chris Van Hollen visits NASA Goddard Space Flight Center with Center Director Chris Scolese.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, left, speaks with U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) before a hearing held by the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies to review NASA’s Fiscal Year 2027 budget request, Tuesday, April 28, 2026, at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, left, shakes hands with U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), as U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) before a hearing held by the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies to review NASA’s Fiscal Year 2027 budget request, Tuesday, April 28, 2026, at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), left, and U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) ask NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman questions during a hearing held by the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies to review NASA’s Fiscal Year 2027 budget request, Tuesday, April 28, 2026, at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), left, speaks with from right to left, NASA astronauts Victor Glover, pilot; Reid Wiseman, commander; Christina Koch, mission specialist, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist, Tuesday, May 12, 2026, in Washington. NASA’s Artemis II mission took Wiseman, Glover, Koch, and Hansen on a nearly 10-day journey around the Moon and back to Earth in April 2026. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), left, and U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) second from left, speak with from left to right, NASA astronaut Christina Koch, mission specialist; CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist; and NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, commander; and Victor Glover, pilot at an event at the Dirksen Senate Office Building, Tuesday, May 12, 2026, in Washington. NASA’s Artemis II mission took Wiseman, Glover, Koch, and Hansen on a nearly 10-day journey around the Moon and back to Earth in April 2026. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

From left to right, U.S. Senator John Hoeven (R-ND), U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), and U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) speak with NASA astronaut Christina Koch, mission specialist; CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist; and NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, commander; and Victor Glover, pilot at an event at the Dirksen Senate Office Building, Tuesday, May 12, 2026, in Washington. NASA’s Artemis II mission took Wiseman, Glover, Koch, and Hansen on a nearly 10-day journey around the Moon and back to Earth in April 2026. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md, left, Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., second from left, and Rep. David Trone, D-Md, right, are seen as Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., second from right, delivers remarks ahead of the release of the first images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, Tuesday, July 12, 2022, at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The first full-color images and spectroscopic data from the James Webb Space Telescope, a partnership with ESA (European Space Agency) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), are a demonstration of the power of Webb as the telescope begins its science mission to unfold the infrared universe. Photo Credit: (NASA/Taylor Mickal)

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman testifies during a hearing held by the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies to review NASA’s Fiscal Year 2027 budget request, Tuesday, April 28, 2026, at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman testifies during a hearing held by the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies to review NASA’s Fiscal Year 2027 budget request, Tuesday, April 28, 2026, at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman testifies during a hearing held by the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies to review NASA’s Fiscal Year 2027 budget request, Tuesday, April 28, 2026, at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)