The National Space Council will continue operations under the Biden Vice President Kamala Harris will chair the organization. Senior administration officials confirmed on a call with reporters on Saturday and said the White House process to hire an executive secretary to manage the council is "well underway." The National Space Council oversees the three main areas of US space activities—national security, civil space, and commercial space Dormant from 1993 to 2017, President Trump revived it to advise the administration on space policy VP Pence chaired the council, and Scott Pace served as executive secretary