Source - President Donald Trump wants to send astronauts where no man has gone before.
Trump authorized the acting NASA administrator Robert M. Lightfoot Jr. to "lead an innovative space exploration program to send American astronauts back to the moon, and eventually Mars" during a White House signing ceremony.
Standing with retired astronauts and Vice President Mike Pence, Trump touted the initiative as the first step in establishing a foundation on the moon for "an eventual mission to Mars and perhaps someday to many worlds beyond."
"The directive I am signing today will refocus America's space program on human exploration and discovery," Trump said. "It marks an important step in returning American astronauts to the moon for the first time since 1972 for long-term exploration and use. This time we will not only plan on flag and leave our footprint."
Deputy White House press secretary Hogan Gidley said Monday that Trump's directive came after the National Space Council sent recommendations to the President.
"He will change our nation's human spaceflight policy to help America become the driving force for the space industry, gain new knowledge from the cosmos, and spur incredible technology," Gidley said Monday.
As much as I would love to believe that NASA is going to get on this whole Mars space race with Boeing and Elon Musk (and probably Russia and China because they're always up to something) I gotta call bullshit on this one. The US government isn't particularly keen on sending people to Mars. Sure, it sounds amazing and super dope, but it just doesn't seem like something that's going to be priority number one for a former real estate mogul who spends his time fighting media outlets and nonexistent invisible wars on Christmas. So why exactly do I think it's bullshit? Allow me to explain.
With Boeing and Tesla/SpaceX already involved in the race to Mars, wouldn't it be more pragmatic to just join efforts with one of theirs or maybe even Lockheed Martin, who we've obviously done a ton of super secret work with in the past, because they too are trying to develop a Mars program? I understand that Elon Musk was born in South Africa but I'm pretty sure he has US citizenship and know for a fact that both SpaceX and Tesla are American companies, would he be so opposed to joining forces with the US government in this type of endeavor? And if not Musk, then surely Boeing would invite NASA's help and expertise, especially considering their CEOs brash claims that Boeing will be the first to land on Mars. Entering into this type of space race against private entities in our own backyard seems irresponsible and a waste of valuable resources.
So no, since I wasn't born yesterday I am not buying into this whole Mars charade. But I will buy that Trump is going full Geppetto on this one, the puppetmaster back at his old tricks. President Trump is clearly trying to spark a little Cold War space race type scenario with North Korea.
Think about it. North Korea thinks the US is going to fuck with them and blow them up with nukes, the US and pretty much everyone else on the planet fears North Korea will most likely try to do the same if they can ever get their rockets working. Well, it seems they got their rockets working, and now it's time to flip the script on their asses.
Trump is going to get their mind off nukes and onto the moon and Mars, inciting a fervent space race that 100% shifts their focus off of nuclear advancements and onto the stars. Over the next 6 months or so he will further hype the solar system and the United States influence on it, stating that only the smartest countries with the greatest leaders are brave enough to explore the vast expanse that is our universe. Belittling nuclear research, saying outdated it is and how that's a prehistoric way of thinking, that the real power is in the stars or some bullshit.
Meanwhile back in Pyongyang, Kim Jong Un is seething because he still has no idea that he's being fucked with. He starts to think that North Korea is late to the game again, nukes are too old school. The rest of the world is out here building real life spaceships trying to explore the galaxy, make peace treaties with aliens. Kim just recently watched Guardians of the Galaxy (the first one, he still hasn't gotten a good bootleg of the sequel unfortunately) and even though he himself is intelligent enough to know that it is only a piece of fiction based off comic books, it seems the rest of the world is trying to make it a reality and he's getting left in the dust. And he knows if the Americans meet aliens, they're definitely going to try to talk shit about him because that's what they always do, making fun of his hair and weight and how he can't feed his countrymen. Assholes. Plus, if everyone flew into outer space, he was pretty sure that North Korea would lose all internet access. They never figured it out, they just borrow China's WiFi password, and at that point the Supreme Leader realizes that he cannot let this happen. First thing tomorrow morning he is going to announce that North Korea is going to Mars, but first he has to call China to see if they can help his scientists figure out how to get to the moon. Right after he has a couple more pieces of cheese.
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