09 November 2016
How a Trump presidency might affect US space policy
... capable of thinking outside of bureaucratic structures and regulations." Other sources agree that it seems likely that the Trump administration will take a hard look at costly NASA programmes, such as the Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft...
21 October 2019
Russia could join US-led Lunar Gateway programme
... panel. "We know the ISS will not last forever. We need to be thinking about what comes next." The Trump administration has floated the idea of ending US support of the ISS after 2024. Russia's Krikalev, however, was concerned...
12 July 2019
NASA reassigns top leaders in Moon 2024 programme
... a critical time when the agency is ramping up its efforts to return to the Moon, as directed by the Trump Administration. “The Trump Administration’s ill-defined crash program to land astronauts on the Moon in 2024 was going to be challenging enough...
20 March 2019
Webb telescope partly blamed for WFIRST funding cut
...after the James Webb Space Telescope. The Trump administration’s proposed fiscal 2020 budget, made public March 11, ...will tell you it has been a challenge for me, as your NASA administrator, to go up to [Capitol] Hill and talk about the James Webb...
17 February 2021
NASA forecasts cost of Artemis programme at $86 billion
... to the moon, and onwards to Mars, Psaki gave no indication that the intended 2024 goal established by the Trump administration would be met. NASA’s goal of returning American astronauts to the surface of the Moon was moved forward to 2024...
09 April 2019
US space chiefs justify ambitious exploration plans
... surface of the moon.” He envisions reorganising the agency to include a new Moon to Mars Mission Directorate. The Trump administration already submitted its fiscal year 2020 budget request to Congress. Bridenstine acknowledged that NASA will amend...
