During President Trump’s first term in office, he signed Space Policy Directive 1 , signaling the administration’s desire to bring American astronauts back to the moon. This directive, and similar ones, later became Project Artemis , the lunar campaign with broader ambition to get the U.S. on Mars.

But will we get to the moon, not to mention Mars ?

As the space race against China barrels forward, the White House first proposed $6 billion in total cuts to NASA funding , a roughly 24 percent reduction that experts said would be the largest single-year cut to agency funding in history .

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