WASHINGTON, April 28 -- Sen. Jerry Moran issued the following press release:

U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) - chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, and Science - today led a subcommittee hearing to review the President's FY2027 budget request for NASA with testimony from Administrator Jared Isaacman. During the hearing, Sen. Moran congratulated Administrator Isaacman on the successful Artemis II mission and thanked him for recently visiting Kansas to tour local aerospace manufacturers and the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson.

"That visit carried a powerful sense of continuity between NASA's past and its future," said Sen. Moran. "As you know, Apollo 13 set the record for the furthest distance humans have tra...