{"id":21394,"date":"2025-05-14T00:59:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T16:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/the-national-space-council-may-not-be-dead\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T00:59:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T16:59:35","slug":"the-national-space-council-may-not-be-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/the-national-space-council-may-not-be-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"The National Space Council may not be dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"img-border featured-image\">\n<p>\t<img width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/01\/uag-vp2-2-23-2023.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1600\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/01\/uag-vp2-2-23-2023.jpg?w=320&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/01\/uag-vp2-2-23-2023.jpg?w=640&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/01\/uag-vp2-2-23-2023.jpg?w=1024&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/01\/uag-vp2-2-23-2023.jpg?w=1500&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-attachment-id=\"42595\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/2025\/01\/23\/president-trump-to-likely-shut-down-his-revived-national-space-council-thanks-to-spacex\/uag-vp2-2-23-2023\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/01\/uag-vp2-2-23-2023.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all\" data-orig-size=\"2000,1000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"national space council UAG\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\n\n<p>Image: NASA<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; data-large-file=&#8221;https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/01\/uag-vp2-2-23-2023.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024&#8243;><figcaption>\n\t\t\t\tImage: NASA\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Politico reports that the National Space Council may return under the second Trump Administration after it was believed dead, thanks to lobbyists from SpaceX. However, its scale and goals are unknown given the White House\u2019s new focused mission on space exploration.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-43289\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The council, which was rebirthed during President Trump\u2018s first term, was used during the last two presidencies as their lead advisor on planning future space initiatives. During Trump\u2019s first term, it was instrumental in creating the Space Force and Artemis Program, while Biden\u2019s council worked on broader programs and continued with the status quo in exploration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chaired by the Vice President, it also sees representatives from every executive branch that touches space, both civil and military. Its goal is to foster better communication and policymaking for a stronger national space program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, President Trump\u2019s new administration did not mention its intention to bring the council back, and Vice President Vance has not been vocal about any support for the nation\u2019s space programs.<\/p>\n<p>\t<span class=\"outbrain-ad-label\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script type=\"text\/plain\">\n\t\t\twindow.adSlotsConfig = window.adSlotsConfig || [];<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tadSlotsConfig.push( {\n\t\t\t\tslotID: '\/1049447\/Outbrain',\n\t\t\t\tslotName: 'div-gpt-ad-outbrain-ad-43289',\n\t\t\t\tsizes: [300, 250],\n\t\t\t\tslotPosition: 'mid_article'\n\t\t\t} );\n\t\t<\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That isn\u2019t to say President Trump hasn\u2019t been getting advised on space issues; Elon Musk has taken over that role, getting President Trump to commit to human Martian exploration missions in both his inaugural address and first address to Congress. Musk\u2019s SpaceX also lobbied to end the NSpC, stating it as unnecessary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While a strong advocate for human exploration of space, Musk doesn\u2019t have much say or power in crafting the nation\u2019s budget. Unlike previous years when the council was in place, all of the White House\u2019s budget input for space came from the White House\u2019s Office of Management and Budget. It had a simple goal: reduce the nation\u2019s budget by cutting everything not important to a handful of key goals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is where NASA\u2018s largest budget cut proposal in recent history came into play, with a larger cut to NASA\u2019s science missions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congress will now have the final say in what is and isn\u2019t funded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Politico\u2019s source states the National Space Council would likely focus on President Trump\u2019s missions of building the Golden Dome missile defense system, beating China back to the Moon, and landing astronauts on Mars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}