Tag: Space Policy

  • Trump reauthorizes U.S. Space Command

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    Air Force Gen. Jay Raymond, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence participated in a White House ceremony Thursday to reestablish U.S. Space Command. Credit: Official White House Photo by Tia Dufour President Trump reestablished U.S. Space Command in a White House ceremony Thursday, setting up a unified combatant…

  • Trump criticizes NASA over his own administration’s moon program

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION President Donald Trump after signing Space Policy Directive 1 on Dec. 11, 2017, directing NASA to return to the moon. Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani In a head-spinning tweet, President Trump blasted NASA on Friday for its plan to return to the moon, a plan set in motion during a…

  • Pence rallies Johnson Space Center workers with promise of moon missions

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Vice President Mike Pence speaks to workers Thursday at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky In what came across as a combination pep rally and old-time revival, Vice President Mike Pence asked flight controllers, engineers and astronauts at the Johnson Space Center Thursday to “rededicate”…

  • Robert Lightfoot, NASA’s longest-serving interim administrator, to retire

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    NASA Acting Administrator Robert Lightfoot testifies to the House Science Committee’s subcommittee on space March 7. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls NASA Acting Administrator Robert Lightfoot, a rocket propulsion engineer and career civil servant who has led the space agency since the beginning of the Trump administration, said Monday he will retire from the space agency at…

  • White House emphasizes industry over science in Space Council appointments

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    Vice President Mike Pence visited a United Launch Alliance hangar Tuesday evening at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, where a Delta 4-Heavy rocket is being readied for liftoff in July. Tory Bruno, ULA’s president and CEO, briefed Pence on the facility. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now A roster of representatives from the commercial space industry, astronauts,…

  • President Trump makes moon missions NASA’s near-term goal

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION President Trump shows off a new national space policy directive he signed Monday at the White House, putting NASA’s focus on returning astronauts to the moon as a precursor to eventual Mars flights. Standing to Trump’s left, just behind the president’s signature, is Harrison Schmitt, one of the…

  • Pence calls for a return to the moon as a stepping stone to Mars

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Vice President Mike Pence speaks Thursday at the first meeting of the newly-convened National Space Council. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky Vice President Mike Pence, chairing a revived National Space Council, said Thursday the United States will once again send astronauts to the moon, using Earth’s satellite as a critical…

  • White House taps Bridenstine to head NASA

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    Rep. Jim Bridenstine, R-Oklahoma, speaks at the 32nd Space Symposium in April 2016. Credit: Tom Kimmell/Space Foundation President Trump plans to nominate Rep. Jim Bridenstine, an Oklahoma Republican who has championed commercial spaceflight and a return to the moon, to be the next NASA administrator after months of speculation. Bridenstine was long rumored to be…

  • Pence vows to renew American space leadership

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Vice President Mike Pence, chairman of the recently re-established National Space Council, toured the Kennedy Space Center Thursday and vowed to renew American leadership on the high frontier, telling spaceport workers “our nation will return to the moon, and we will put American boots on the face of…

  • Trump signs order reviving long-dormant National Space Council

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    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…