White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt took to X-formerly-Twitter this week to mock the space agency’s since-abandoned commitment to sending the first woman and first person of color to the Moon.

Leavitt shared an April article by the conservative news website The Daily Signal, with the message of her tweet bearing only its title: “NASA Nominee Plans to Prioritize America First Agenda in Space, Not DEI.”

The whiplash is jarring. After all, it was the first Trump administration that boasted about its plans to send the “first woman” to the Moon just five years ago. In fact, the mission was already supposed to have happened, since it was slated for 2024 before delays pushed it back.

The Daily Signal article implied that SpaceX space tourist and billionaire Jared Isaacman — who was ha

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