Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio of Florida is surrounded by a crowd in Huntsville, Alabama, on February 27. Despite the setting, including a full-sized shuttle replica serving as a backdrop, Rubio said little about space policy in his speech. (credit: WHNT-TV webcast)

Space has not been an issue during the presidential campaign to date, creating uncertainty about what the next U.S. president will do with NASA after taking office. Jeff Foust reports on one congressional effort to provide more stability for NASA by, in effect, stripping the White House of some control over the agency.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...