In his first term, President Donald Trump set his eyes on America’s “next frontier”: the moon, Mars and beyond.
“We will ensure a future of American dominance in space,” Trump said in a May 2020 speech at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The first-term president reestablished a White House space council, issued directives intended to jump-start U.S. space policy and urged Congress to fully fund his planned Artemis program, which would return American astronauts to the moon.