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

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

The governor said the agency's Washington D.C. headquarters is always empty and it makes sense to move them to Florida.