Trump to start process of sending Americans back to moon: White House
Source: Reuters
DECEMBER 11, 2017 / 9:51 AM / UPDATED 22 MINUTES AGO
Reuters Staff
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday will sign a directive aimed at sending Americans back to the moon and eventually to Mars, the White House said.
Trump will sign Space Policy Directive 1 that orders NASA to lead an innovative space exploration program to send American astronauts back to the Moon, and eventually Mars, spokesman Hogan Gidley said.
Gidley said Trumps move is based on recommendations from the National Space Council.
He will change our nations human spaceflight policy to help America become the driving force for the space industry, gain new knowledge from the cosmos, and spur incredible technology, Gidley said in a statement.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-space/trump-to-start-process-of-sending-americans-back-to-moon-white-house-idUSKBN1E51QP
WhiteTara
(29,718 posts)What a stupid putz. He cut the budget for his tax cut.
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fountainofyouth
(409 posts)Little man wants to be an astronaut!
Voltaire2
(13,061 posts)their windfall tax bonuses.
videohead5
(2,177 posts)marylandblue
(12,344 posts)about Trump deporting illegal aliens from outer space because he read about them in the National Enquirer.
Old Vet
(2,001 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Trump can get the money by cutting food stamps, etc.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)"No other President in our history has sent men to the Moon"
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Does the pussygrabber have any idea how expensive it was to get to the Moon?
How expensive it will be to build a Moon-base?
How many technologies for such missions are still in development?
Does the dotard know that it takes people who actually know science to get shit done in science?
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)most Americans are primarily concerned with at this point in time.
He just wants to put Trump properties in space.
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)Bengus81
(6,931 posts)harun
(11,348 posts)Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)CanonRay
(14,104 posts)louis-t
(23,295 posts)Cuz he doesn't want to pay for anything. Pow, Zoom.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)these people have been taking our jerbs
AnnieBW
(10,429 posts)Alone?
Rollo
(2,559 posts)uppityperson
(115,677 posts)But find it's real
TeamPooka
(24,229 posts)Vinca
(50,278 posts)Otherwise, he's got no use for science.
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)decades of rethuglican education cuts and now king con giving money away to the 1%, who is going to pay for this pipe dream? Where will we find the educated persons to guide this fantasy, King con can say it, can hold up an EO after he scribbles on it but that doesn't even come close to making it so.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)He'll partner with Putin and make space look like the hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy with lots of glittery casinos.
EarthFirst
(2,900 posts)flor-de-jasmim
(2,125 posts)MFM008
(19,816 posts)Strapped to rocket.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Progressive dog
(6,905 posts)of building a casino on the moon. (or getting suckers to invest in one)
rzemanfl
(29,565 posts)dalton99a
(81,515 posts)and leaving him there
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)and then adjust the computer program to not stop at the moon.
MountCleaners
(1,148 posts)The rovers have sent us enough beautiful pictures. But it's clear from the images that going there would be a ridiculous waste.
This is just space imperialism at this point, and Trump looks as nuts as Kim Jong-Un.
Dr_Pretorius
(71 posts)Tax cuts?
dchill
(38,503 posts)Bengus81
(6,931 posts)sofa king
(10,857 posts)He put all-around golf expert Dan Quayle in charge of the plan, and it payed off beautifully, with the cancellation of space station Freedom and a cool couple bill tossed out in free R&D money to the aerospace industry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Exploration_Initiative
Then there was the time Bush the Dumber sent us to the Moon, "no later than 2020." It was a literal PR redesign of Apollo that cost shitloads and to date has produced not one working item of hardware.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constellation_program
In the real world, the administration that built Apollo was the Johnson Administration. The Carter Administration built the Space Shuttle. The Clinton Administration built the International Space Station. The Obama Administration accelerated the privatization of low-earth launching. Whatever good or ill came from all of those things, that's what we got because Democrats actually support manned spaceflight while Republicans support soaking NASA for cash handouts.
blitzen
(4,572 posts)we're fake sad bad and the product of alien losers