Trump’s Space Force Will Guard the U.S. From Above, NASA Chief Says
With private companies confidently pursuing many ventures involving space commerce and travel, NASA has been casting its eyes toward the moon, Mars and beyond.
Trump “wants our return to the moon to be sustainable,” Bridenstine said. “We are not going to leave the moon as we did in 1972,” the date of the last U.S. landing there.
Bridenstine is also looking beyond the International Space Station, which the U.S. plans to turn over to the private sector in the next decade, to the construction of permanent infrastructure above and around the moon.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-11/nasa-delays-the-launch-of-its-parker-solar-probe-to-sunday