Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) is seeking to chair the House Science Committee in the 120th Congress.Credit:NASA/Bill Ingalls

WASHINGTON — With Democrats winning control of Congress in the midterm elections, the space community is pondering how the new Congress will take on issues ranging from NASA budgets to the agency’s relationship with SpaceX.

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Jeff Foust

Jeff Foust writes about space policy, commercial space, and related topics for SpaceNews. He earned a Ph.D. in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree with honors in geophysics and planetary science...More by Jeff Foust