{"id":436691,"date":"2026-09-15T15:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T15:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/436691\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T15:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T15:06:11","slug":"texas-launches-bid-to-land-new-u-s-space-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/436691\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas launches bid to land new U.S. Space Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img width=\"640\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ChatGPT-Image-Sep-15-2026-09_30_16-AM-640x400.png\" class=\"object-cover wp-post-image\" alt=\"Texas launches bid to land new U.S. Space Academy\" post-type=\"post\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tGovernor Greg Abbott wants Texas to be the home of a future United States Space Academy. \t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>SAN ANTONIO (KTSA News) \u2014\u00a0Governor Greg Abbott is assembling a leadership team to make Texas the permanent home of the proposed United States Space Academy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">State Representative Greg Bonnen of Friendswood, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, will lead the effort. The team will work with the Texas Space Commission to develop a statewide proposal for the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTexas is the home of America\u2019s human spaceflight program,\u201d said Governor Abbott. \u201cNo state can match what Texas brings to this mission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Texas officials are pointing to NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center in Houston, major military installations, research universities and the state\u2019s growing commercial space industry as key assets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The team includes former NASA astronauts, military leaders and university researchers. The effort follows President Donald Trump\u2019s executive order creating a commission to recommend a permanent location for the new academy.<\/p>\n<p>Texas has also been expanding its partnerships with the U.S. Air Force and Space Force as the state seeks to grow its role in the nation\u2019s space industry.<\/p>\n<p>More about:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Governor Greg Abbott wants Texas to be the home of a future United States Space Academy. SAN ANTONIO&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[151335,27,29,28,151336],"class_list":["post-436691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-permanent-home","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-united-states-space-academy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}