Two Washington state women join ‘Artemis Team’ to go on NASA’s moon missions NASA today named the first 18 astronauts of its “Artemis Team” for missions to the moon — and two of… Read More
National Space Council meeting highlights moon and Mars plan – plus nuclear power The latest meeting of the National Space Council provided a forum to build support for NASA’s twin-focus plan to send… Read More
VP Mike Pence sets 5-year deadline for landing Americans at moon’s south pole Vice President Mike Pence today called for American astronauts to return to the moon in five years, laying down a… Read More
Space Force plan moves forward amid heightened talk about final-frontier fights The National Space Council today pushed forward recommendations to raise the profile of military space activities, at first through a… Read More
50 years after Apollo moonshots, will rivalry with China spark a new space race? WASHINGTON, D.C. — An American rivalry with China could stoke a new space race in the years ahead, prominent members of… Read More
President Trump directs Pentagon to create ‘separate but equal’ Space Force President Donald Trump today directed the Department of Defense to create a Space Force as the sixth branch of the… Read More
National Space Council’s meeting takes aim at industry regulations – and at China Space industry deregulation, and the potential perils posed by China’s space program, shared the spotlight at today’s meeting of the… Read More
Boeing and Blue Origin CEOs listed among National Space Council’s advisers News Brief: Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg and Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith are among 29 candidates for the National Space… Read More
Moon, Mars and jobs: Trump puts his spin on space policy, with details to come President Donald Trump today signed a space policy directive that calls on NASA to establish an outpost on the moon… Read More
National Space Council hears calls for moon trips and stronger space defense The Trump administration plans to send astronauts and robots back to the moon in as little as five years’ time,… Read More
Vice President Mike Pence vows return to moon and ‘boots on Mars’ in NASA speech Vice President Mike Pence, the newly minted chairman of a revived National Space Council, said today that President Donald Trump… Read More
President Trump signs his executive order to reactivate the National Space Council After months of foreshadowing, President Donald Trump today signed an executive order to revive the National Space Council, a move… Read More
