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…