--- title: "Serial Liar George Santos Tapped For Committee in Charge of NASA" description: "Freshman congressman and alleged serial liar George Santos will soon be sitting on a committee charged with overseeing NASA. " date: "2023-01-18" modified: "2023-01-18" authors: - name: "Noor Al-Sibai" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/george-santos-house-committee-nasa" categories: - "NASA" - "Space" tags: - "NASA" - "politics" - "Scott Kelly" - "the digest" --- # Serial Liar George Santos Tapped For Committee in Charge of NASA ![Freshman congressman and alleged serial liar George Santos will soon be sitting on a committee charged with overseeing NASA. ]() *\Image: Anna Moneymaker via Getty / Futurism\* ## Space Cadet Freshman congressman — and [comically prodigal serial fabulist]() — George Santos will soon be sitting on a committee charged with overseeing NASA. Along with being assigned to the House of Representatives' Small Business Committee, Santos was this week placed on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee. As the [American Institute of Physics notes](), the House Science committee is in charge of, well, everything science-related that the US government pays for. Along with governing the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the House Science committee has jurisdiction over NASA and oversees the agency's research and development — and controls US space policy, to boot. Whether such a person should be in charge of all things space is a provocative question. Retired NASA astronaut and avid shitposter [Scott Kelly](), for one, was quick to piledrive Santos. "Awesome to have former NASA astronaut and moon walker, Representative George Santos...on the House Science Space and Technology Committee," [Kelly tweeted]() in an apparent dig at Santos' resume that is, by all accounts [including the congressman's own](), full of made up claims like having graduated from New York University's Stern Business School and worked at Goldman Sachs. "To infinity and beyond!" Kelly quipped. ## Beyond Belief Allegations about Santos' truthfulness first started to go mainstream when the [*New York Times* caught wind]() of inconsistencies in his résumé back in December. Since then, evidence of more untruths has [grown]() [relentlessly](), ranging from serious charges of pretending to have nonexistent credentials to dark but comic ones involving [claims that he took $3,000]() from a GoFundMe started to help raise money for a disabled veteran's service dog — and did so while using the name "[Anthony Devolder]()," which seems to be an assumed identity he used to use, along with the name "[Anthony Zabrovsky]()." Given his shady background, it seems out of this world that House Republican leadership would want someone like Santos working in such an important oversight position. But then again, this is the same party that let Donald Trump create the "Space Force" agency [on the taxpayers' dime](). **More on politics:** [*New European Political Party Is Led by an Artificial Intelligence*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. I'm the proud parent of an ineffable orange cat named Mee-Mow. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()