News Archive / Tagged: Donald Trump

• President Trump delivers remarks after Demo-2 launch

  Michael McCabeJune 6th, 2020

      President Donald J. Trump gave a speech inside of NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building after the successful launch of astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft.

• Artemis I Orion spacecraft advancing through tests at Plum Brook Station

  Michael ColeJanuary 31st, 2020

  SANDUSKY, OHIO -- Testing is fully underway on the Orion spacecraft for the upcoming Artemis I test flight mission at NASA's Plum Brook Station testing facility in Sandusky, Ohio. The Orion crew capsule, integrated with its European Service Module, is currently inside the facility's Space Environments Complex undergoing thermal vacuum tests in the largest thermal vacuum chamber in the world.

• NASA head answers agency questions about ‘Moon by 2024’ goal

  Derek RichardsonApril 2nd, 2019

  NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told the agency what it'll take to accomplish the Trump administration's goal of returning humans to the Moon by 2024.

• Proposal to have Trump’s ‘Space Force’ be situated in Florida moves forward

  Jason RhianMarch 27th, 2019

  This proposal to create the Space Force, a new wing of the U.S. Armed Forces, has received a wide spectrum of responses, including a recent show of support.

• Trump signs directive to create the US Space Force

  Derek RichardsonFebruary 20th, 2019

  A Space Force as a new branch of the U.S. military is one step closer to becoming a reality with the signing of a new space policy directive.

• Trump calls for creation of ‘Space Force’

  Jim SharkeyJune 22nd, 2018

  During a meeting of the National Space Council at the White House on June 18, 2018, President Donald Trump announced he was ordering the creation of a sixth branch of the U.S. military - to focus on space.

• NASA Administrator expresses support for Space Policy Directive-3

  Jason RhianJune 19th, 2018

  With the threat of space debris destroying satellites, crewed spacecraft and even the International Space Station increasing, processes have been initiated to help alleviate and prevent this threat. NASA's new Administrator Jim Bridenstine made several statements about the new Space Policy Directive-3.

• NASA’s exploration goals come into focus with updated road map

  Curt GodwinApril 20th, 2018

  Four months after President Trump directed NASA to return to the Moon, the agency has presented a road map to meet the goals outlined in Space Policy Directive-1. The updated plan shifts focus from the previous "Journey to Mars" campaign back to the Moon, and—eventually—to the Red Planet.

• OPINION: Ending ISS too soon would be an Apollo-sized mistake

  Derek RichardsonFebruary 4th, 2018

  It appears the Trump administration may look to end support for the International Space Station by 2025. This proposal, if approved by Congress, would be a huge mistake similar to that of ending the Apollo program in 1972.

• OPINION: How NASA became a ping-pong ball

  Jason RhianDecember 17th, 2017

  For 30 years, NASA's human space flight program was in a secure, albeit uninspiring, trajectory – low-Earth orbit. The loss of the Shuttle Columbia and her seven-member crew on Feb. 1, 2003, changed all that. The Shuttle era was set to end and the agency would discover there's something even more dangerous than re-entering Earth's atmosphere with damaged heat tiles – politicians.

• Trump policy directive makes Moon NASA’s official goal for human exploration

  Bart LeahyDecember 12th, 2017

  In a brief but pointed Dec. 11, 2017, ceremony at the White House, President Donald Trump signed Space Policy Directive 1, which officially directs NASA to send astronauts back to the Moon as a precursor effort to exploring Mars.

• Rep. James Bridenstine nominated as NASA Administrator

  Derek RichardsonSeptember 2nd, 2017

  Late in the evening, Sept. 1, 2017, the White House announced that President Trump had nominated Rep. James Bridenstine, R-Okla., to be the next NASA Administrator. The U.S. Senate, which returns from its August break on Sept. 5, will need to confirm him before he can take up the role as the head of the U.S. space agency.

• President Trump revives the past to help shape the future of spaceflight

  Curt GodwinJuly 2nd, 2017

  In a move that had been anticipated since late in his campaign, President Trump signed an Executive Order re-establishing the National Space Council on Friday, June 30, 2017. The Council, disbanded in 1993, will be chaired by Vice President Pence and staffed by members of the Executive Branch of the U.S. government.

• NASA officials detail FY 2018 budget proposal

  Derek RichardsonMay 24th, 2017

  The Trump administration released its Fiscal Year 2018 budget request for the federal government on Tuesday, May 23, 2017. Much of what was proposed for NASA remains the same as what was seen in the “skinny budget” back in March, including the elimination of the agency’s Office of Education and several Earth Sciences missions.

• ‘Space ninja’ Peggy Whitson sets space duration record, Trump congratulates

  Derek RichardsonApril 24th, 2017

  NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson has broken the space duration record set by Jeff Williams last year by surpassing 534 cumulative days in space over her three long-duration missions.