US Vice President Kamala Harris will chair the National Space Council (NSC), a space policy planning body within the Politburo of the President of the United States. The White House announced that Harris will lead a team that focuses its work on a number of projects, including sustainable space travel and cross-country relationships, in pursuit of common goals.

Also under his supervision, The North American government intends to promote the modernization of the space force, Renaming the structures inherited from the Air Force, specifically, the now defunct Space Command. The service budget is currently around $ 15 billion annually, and it controls dozens of military satellites and tracks more than 24,000 objects in space.

Established in 1958 under the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower and under the name of the National Aeronautics and Space Council, the National Security Council was closed several times and was reinstated again by the Donald Trump administration in 2017, under the direction of the then Vice President, Mike Pence. , Who promised that American astronauts would travel to the moon again in 2024.

The National Security Council will assist NASA and other government agencies in formulating federal government policies. On the presence of civilians, commercial and military entities in space, as well as the achievement of manned flights to Mars in the coming years.

“I am honored to lead our National Space Council,” Harris tweeted about her appointment to head this entity. For his part, Bill Nelson, who was recently confirmed by the US Senate as the 14th NASA Administrator, said:The Vice President is the ideal person to lead the space policy of the federal government, And it’s an increasingly complex thing, with so many nations in space.

Vice President Lyndon Johnson was the first president of the National Space Council when he initially ventured the United States beyond Earth. Now, Vice President Harris will coordinate our nation’s efforts to ensure the United States continues to lead in space. “This is an exciting time for our space program,” added Nelson.