Tag: Donald Trump
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President Trump signs his executive order to reactivate the National Space Council
President Donald Trump shows off an executive order reviving the National Space Council. NASA astronaut Alvin Drew, Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin and Vice President Mike Pence, the council’s chairman, are at far right. (Shannon Augustus / C-SPAN via Twitter) After months of foreshadowing, President Donald Trump today signed an executive order to revive the…
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Trump signs order reviving long-dormant National Space Council
President Trump signs an executive order re-establishing the National Space Council, with astronauts Dave Wolf and Al Drew, and Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin (left-to-right) looking on. Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani Emphasizing commercial, technological and national security opportunities in space, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday re-establishing the National Space Council, a space policy…
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Trump’s NASA budget request reduces Earth science, eliminates education office
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION File photo of the International Space Station. Credit: NASA The Trump administration’s fiscal 2018 budget request includes $19.1 billion for NASA, a $561 million decrease over previously enacted levels that would reduce the number of Earth science missions, eliminate the agency’s education office and do away with the…
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In video call to space station, President Donald Trump calls for speeding up trips to Mars
President Donald Trump chats with astronauts on the International Space Station from his desk in the White House’s Oval Office, flanked by NASA astronaut Kate Rubins on the left and Ivanka Trump on the right. (White House via YouTube) Humans on Mars by 2024? President Donald Trump set that time frame today, almost certainly in…
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Video: Trump call to station
Donald Trump calls the International Space Station from the Oval Office, offering congratulations to Expedition 51 commander Peggy Whitson on breaking the U.S. astronaut endurance record.
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President Trump calls International Space Station
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION President Trump called the International Space Station Monday for a videochat watched by thousands of school kids, congratulating commander Peggy Whitson on becoming America’s most experienced astronaut and jokingly promising to get Americans to Mars “during my first term or, at worst, during my second term.” Joined by…
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Donald Trump gets an astronaut’s words thrown in his face from stratosphere
If someone can send a Donald Trump bobblehead tribute up into the stratosphere on a balloon, we suppose it’s only fair that a protest of President Trump’s policies can go up there, too. That’s what the totally unofficial Autonomous Space Agency Network did with its Aphrodite Program balloon launch of a printed-out tweet that’s addressed to…
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SpaceX’s Elon Musk isn’t smiling over NASA authorization for Mars missions
Elon Musk has his sights set on going to Mars. (SpaceX via YouTube) President Donald Trump may be beaming over a newly signed law that calls on NASA to look into sending astronauts to Mars by 2033, but not Elon Musk. SpaceX’s billionaire CEO is aiming to put his fortune behind a push to send up to…
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Why choose to go to the moon? Trump changes commercial space calculations
An artist’s conception shows Bigelow Aerospace’s lunar depot in orbit. (Bigelow Aerospace) Nearly 55 years ago, President John F. Kennedy said America chose to go to the moon and take on other challenges “not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” Now it’s commercial space ventures that are choosing to go to the…
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Following Trump’s lead, Pentagon orders reviews of Air Force One, F-35 fighter jets
The current Air Force One planes were built more than a quarter-century ago. (White House Photo) President Donald Trump’s defense secretary, James Mattis, has ordered reviews of the multibillion-dollar programs to acquire new Air Force One jets and more F-35 fighter jets – two programs that sparked his boss’ ire in the run-up to his inauguration.…