"I think with the combination of Newt Gingrich and Pence himself they were able to get it through." "I think it is a good sign," said Lori Garver, who was deputy NASA administrator under former President Barack Obama, crediting influential space enthusiasts close to Trump. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
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The policy also marks a shift from the Obama administration's plan to bypass the moon and focus on reaching asteroids to eventually explore Mars.īy signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. Jack Schmitt (R-N.M.) of Apollo 17, who brought with him Lunar Sample 70215, a piece of basaltic lava rock retrieved in 1972. “This time we will not only plant our flag and leave our footprint, we will establish a foundation for an eventual mission to Mars and perhaps someday to many worlds beyond,” Trump said Monday in a signing ceremony in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, flanked by dignitaries including Apollo 11 veteran Buzz Aldrin and former Sen. The presidential directive comes on the heels of a new White House space council headed by Vice President Mike Pence. would rely primarily on humans or robots to build a lunar outpost for deep space exploration. The goal would be to return to the moon, then journey on to Mars - though Trump left it unclear whether the U.S. Instead, the agency would enlist international partners and a new class of billionaire-run private space juggernauts to help pull it off. Unlike with the space race of the 1960s, the program Trump outlined Monday would not be entirely a NASA-run operation.
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