File" This image provided by NASA Monday, April 6, 2026, shows the Moon, the near side (the hemisphere we see from Earth) visible at the top half of the disk, identifiable by the dark splotches. At the lower center is Orientale basin, a nearly 600-mile-wide crater that straddles the Moon’s near and far sides. Everything below the crater is the far side. (NASA via AP)

Houston is at the heart of what US Senator Ted Cruz describes as a “land grab” in space.

The Texas Republican is the chair of the Senate Commerce Committee, which just passed out a bill that would ensure the Johnson Space Center will be the command center for a future American base on the moon.

Cruz says America is in another space race, this time with China, which aims to land an astronaut on the moon by 2030. Artemis 4 is tentatively scheduled to land American astronauts on the moon by early 2028.

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