NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine welcomes President Trump to Kennedy Space Center on May 30 ahead of the SpaceX Demo-2 launch. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

Given all the challenges that Jim Bridenstine has had to deal with as NASA administrator, from accelerating a human return to the surface of the moon to coping with the coronavirus pandemic, perhaps the biggest accomplishment has been winning broad, bipartisan approval for his leadership of the space agency.

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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...