More than half a century after humans first set foot on the Moon’s surface, the United States is competing with China to land astronauts on the Moon by 2030.
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The goal of this policy is to “revive American leadership in spaceflight,” ensuring more than a thousand rocket launches and atmospheric re-entries annually on U.S. territory by 2030.
In a memorandum released on Thursday, D. Trump urged the U.S. space agency (NASA) to “create favorable conditions for commercial transportation to the Moon and back, facilitate commercial robotic access to Mars, and explore commercial opportunities to send humans to Mars and back.”
NASA is already aiming to establish a base on the Moon’s surface and plans to use robotic vehicles to build infrastructure that future Moon-bound explorers can utilize.
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The president also invited private investors to invest in U.S. space exploration and urged his government to designate additional sites from which spacecraft could be launched and landed.
NASA aims to test the docking of its spacecraft and at least one lunar landing module in low Earth orbit by 2027. These landing vehicles are being developed by competing billionaires Elon Musk’s and Jeff Bezos’s companies, SpaceX and Blue Origin.
E. Musk founded SpaceX in 2002 with the ambitious goal of flying people to Mars and establishing colonies on that planet.
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