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Trump’s space order: 2028 Moon landing, lunar outpost by 2030

The Jerusalem Post reports: “US President Donald Trump enshrined the US goal to put humans back on the moon by 2028 and defend space from weapon threats in a sweeping executive order issued on Thursday, the first major space policy move of his administration’s second term.

The order, issued hours after billionaire private astronaut and former SpaceX customer Jared Isaacman was sworn in as NASA’s 15th administrator, also reorganized national space policy coordination under Trump’s chief science adviser, Michael Kratsios.

Titled ‘ENSURING AMERICAN SPACE SUPERIORITY,’ the order calls on the Pentagon and US intelligence agencies to create a space security strategy, urges efficiency among private contractors, and seeks demonstrations of missile-defense technologies under Trump’s Golden Dome program…”

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