Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wants NASA to relocate its headquarters from Washington, D.C., to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida's Brevard County.

While lauding a new partnership among Florida universities and Kennedy Space Center, Gov. Ron DeSantis shoehorned in a pitch to have NASA headquarters leave the nation’s capital in favor of

Gov. Ron DeSantis spoke at the Operations Support Building (OSB II) at the Kennedy Space Center in Merrit Island on Wednesday afternoon. The Florida Governor discussed NASA’s historic past of space explorations that have launched from the Kennedy Space Center.

NASA's 606,000 square-foot headquarters remains in Washington, D.C., where it has been since the agency's conception.