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Somewhat surprised that Ted Cruz is heading this up considering his record for trust in science: http://www.npr.org/2015/12/09/459026242/scientific-evidence-...

Also, this site design is certainly above par for a .gov, I wonder who they contracted for it.

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For some reason builtwith.com couldn't search the page.

And a curious amount of whitespace in the source file.

If anyone wants to deep dive it...

From what I remember, Ted Cruz is actually very support of NASA. Which is surprising given how conservative he is.

NASA was in his backyard. Mission Control is in Houston. Constituents yo.

NASA, and particularly the manned spaceflight aspects, has always been popular with conservatives (particularly the "national greatness" types), though not so much libertarians (which can be confusing, since conservatives often use libertarian rhetoric, and selectively invoke "small government" when attacking programs they don't like.)

Plus, as a sibling comment points out, you have to consider the "TX" and not just the "R" in (R-TX).

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