U.S. Senator Jerry Moran, R-Kan., gives remarks during NASA’s Day on the Hill, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025, at the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

U.S. Senator Jerry Moran, R-Kan., gives remarks during NASA’s Day on the Hill, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025, at the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

U.S. Senator Jerry Moran, R-Kan., gives remarks during NASA’s Day on the Hill, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025, at the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Senator Jerry Moran, D-Kan., questions NASA Administrator Bill Nelson during a Senate Appropriations’ Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies subcommittee hearing on NASA’s budget, Tuesday, May 3, 2022, at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., chairman of the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies, questions NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine during a budget review hearing, Wednesday, May 1, 2019, at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Sen. Jerry Moran, R-KS., gives remarks as NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, and Victor Glover look on during a meet and greet, Wednesday, May 17, 2023, at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington. Wiseman, Glover, along with NASA Astronaut Christina Hammock Koch and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, who will fly around the Moon on NASA’s Artemis II flight test, visited Washington to discuss their upcoming mission with members of Congress and others. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., Chair Senate Appropriations’ Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies subcommittee and Sen. Jerry Moran, R-KS., question NASA Administrator Bill Nelson during a budget hearing, Tuesday, April 18, 2023, at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Sen. Jerry Moran, R-KS., gives remarks as CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, left, and \Christina Hammock Koch look on during a meet and greet, Wednesday, May 17, 2023, at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington. Hammock Koch, Hansen, along with NASA Astronauts Reid Wiseman and Victor Glover, who will fly around the Moon on NASA’s Artemis II flight test, visited Washington to discuss their upcoming mission with members of Congress and others. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., Chair Senate Appropriations’ Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies subcommittee, left, and Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan. question NASA Administrator Bill Nelson during a subcommittee hearing on the fiscal year 2025 budget, Thursday, May 23, 2024, at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Sen. Jerry Moran, R-KS., gives remarks as CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, left, NASA astronauts Christina Hammock Koch, Reid Wiseman, and Victor Glover, look on during a meet and greet, Wednesday, May 17, 2023, at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington. Wiseman, Glover, Hammock Koch, and Hansen, who will fly around the Moon on NASA’s Artemis II flight test, visited Washington to discuss their upcoming mission with members of Congress and others. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Group photo with CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, left, Sen. Jerry Moran, R-KS., NASA Astronaut Christina Hammock Koch, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) President Lisa Campbell, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, and Victor Glover, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and NASA Administrator Bill Nelson at the conclusion of a meet and greet, Wednesday, May 17, 2023, at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington. Wiseman, Glover, Hammock Koch, and Hansen, who will fly around the Moon on NASA’s Artemis II flight test, visited Washington to discuss their upcoming mission with members of Congress and others. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Kathy Lueders, associate administrator for NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, left, NASA Deputy Administrator Jim Morhard, second from left, Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana, second from right, and Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS), right, are seen as they wait to see NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi, depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Launch Complex 39A to board the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft for the Crew-1 mission launch Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission is the first crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Hopkins, Glover, Walker, and Noguchi launched at 7:27 p.m. EST on Sunday, Nov. 15, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Gwynne Shotwell, president and chief operating officer of SpaceX, left, and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, right, are seen as they wait to see NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi, depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Launch Complex 39A to board the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft for the Crew-1 mission launch Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission is the first crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Hopkins, Glover, Walker, and Noguchi launched at 7:27 p.m. EST on Sunday, Nov. 15, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)