By Michael Wilner, Los Angeles Times

WASHINGTON — Early in his first term, President Donald Trump held a modest ceremony directing NASA to return humans to the moon for the first time in 50 years. It was a goalpost set without a road map. Veterans of the space community reflected on the 2017 document , conspicuously silent on budgets and timelines, equivocating between excitement and concern.

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