President Trump
Trump signs defense bill establishing U.S. Space Force: What comes next
"Today marks a landmark achievement as we officially inaugurate the newest branch or our military, the U.S. Space Force," said Trump.
Op-ed | Trump’s most unhelpful moon tweet
Trump’s recent tweet will only sow confusion and complicate the already herculean task of building a permanent, manned American presence in the space beyond Earth orb
White House reiterates human moon missions on the path to Mars
A day after President Trump appeared to cast doubt on NASA’s plans to send humans to the moon, a White House official said the moon remained a goal of the agency’s programs as a step towards Mars.
Trump tweet throws space policy into chaos
President Donald Trump disrupted months of civil space policy development in a single tweet June 7, suggesting that NASA should not return humans to the Moon.
On National Security | Space Force is a huge meme but it’s no joke
Most people outside the national security community don’t think of space as a warfighting domain. But the military has regarded it as such for at least 20 years.
On National Security | Bring sanity to the Space Force debate? That would be boring
Since Trump ordered the Pentagon to create a Space Force, the topic has captured the public’s imagination while Washington policy wonks and defense insiders struggle to explain exactly what a space force is or what it will do.
Foust Forward | How much advice is too much for the White House regarding space?
If the president and others in the White House need more input on the real state of NASA and other national space activities, they now have another source: the National Space Council's Users’ Advisory Group.
On National Security | Space Force: What’s all the fuss about?
Until Trump put it under a massive spotlight, the Space Force (or Space Corps) only existed as an academic and policy debate in Washington blue-ribbon commissions and occasional congressional hearings.
Trump: ‘We are going to have the Space Force’
Trump: Creating a Space Force and promoting space exploration by NASA and the private sector will be “important for the nation’s psyche.”
Trump wants a Space Force; will Congress oblige? • DoD: ‘This will be a deliberate process’
The National Space Council meeting at the White House on Monday was supposed to be all about the Trump administration’s new approach to managing space traffic and debris.
President to sign space traffic management policy
President Trump will sign a new space policy directive June 18 addressing space traffic management issues, closely following the proposed policy that Vice President Pence announced in April.
New policy directive implements commercial space regulatory reforms
A new policy President Trump will sign May 24 will implement a series of regulatory reforms to support commercial space recommended by the National Space Council earlier this year.
Op-ed | Back to ‘back to the moon’
If one replaces the 2024 retirement of ISS with the 2010 retirement of space shuttle, you pretty much have the “back to the moon” space policy of the George W. Bush administration.
On National Security | Space Force fans, be careful what you wish for
Ever since the topic of a “Space Force” was brought up by President Trump, congressional hawks can’t stop talking about it.
Space Force takes Capitol Hill by storm • What is the true cost of space programs? • Space budget deep dive
President Trump's riff on creating a military space force captured the public’s imagination, spawning memes and jokes about starship ninjas gearing up to fight the nation’s wars in space.
News Analysis | Russia sneers at Trump’s moon directive, but misses the point
There are many valid critiques of U.S. President Donald Trump’s new direction for NASA. Few, if any, would be new. But Russian government officials saw an opportunity for domestic attention and took a stab at it.
