2 congressmen want NASA board, 10-year term for leader Houston Chronicle Copyright 2012 Houston Chronicle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 9:02 p.m., Thursday, September 20, 2012 "The NASA that we know is capable of maintaining that world leadership in space exploration if we would just make them get the politics out of NASA to allow them do what they do best, to let the scientists, the engineers, the astronauts and the professional that have made that agency such an amazing place," he said at a news conference in front of the U.S.