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President Trump signs space policy directive ordering NASA to send humans to the Moon
Spacenews.com ^ | 12/11/2017 | Jeff Foust

Posted on 12/11/2017 1:35:57 PM PST by DFG

President Donald Trump is scheduled to sign his administration’s first space policy directive in a White House ceremony Dec. 11, one that will formally direct NASA to send humans back to the moon.

A White House schedule of the president’s activities, released late Dec. 10, includes a 3 p.m. Eastern “signing ceremony for Space Policy Directive 1.” The schedule didn’t provide additional details about the event or the document, but a White House official later confirmed that the directive is linked to human space exploration policy.

“The president, today, will sign Space Policy Directive 1 (SPD-1) that directs the NASA Administrator to lead an innovative space exploration program to send American astronauts back to the Moon, and eventually Mars,” Deputy White House Press Secretary Hogan Gidley said in an statement Dec. 11.

(Excerpt) Read more at spacenews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fourth100days; hogangidley; mars; moon; nasa; space; spaceexploration; spacex; trumpnasa
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1 posted on 12/11/2017 1:35:57 PM PST by DFG
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To: rktman

Ping.


2 posted on 12/11/2017 1:37:15 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: DFG

Bang! Zoom!


3 posted on 12/11/2017 1:40:59 PM PST by Wissa ("Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult." - Michael Corleone)
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To: DFG

MMGA!


4 posted on 12/11/2017 1:41:02 PM PST by scottinoc
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To: DFG

But what about Muslim outreach???


5 posted on 12/11/2017 1:41:43 PM PST by Obadiah
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To: DFG

Just today, during our science class, my 13 year old asked “when are we going to send people back to the moon?”

Maybe I should ask him for some lottery numbers.


6 posted on 12/11/2017 1:41:55 PM PST by pinkandgreenmom
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To: Wissa

7 posted on 12/11/2017 1:42:33 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: DFG

President Trump reserves the right to choose which humans are sent to the moon.


8 posted on 12/11/2017 1:43:34 PM PST by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: DFG

What’s the hurry? It’s only been 45 years or so since we last went to the moon?

Look at all the progress in space we’ve made since then.

If someone had told me in the mid 70s we would have abandoned space exploration to the point we would have no way of delivering humans to space in 2017, I’d have told them they were crazy.

No, evidently I was.


9 posted on 12/11/2017 1:43:59 PM PST by DoughtyOne (McConnell / Ryan: Why pass legislation when we can pass Leftist legislation for Leftists?)
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To: DFG

First Female Astronaut to walk on the moon.


10 posted on 12/11/2017 1:44:24 PM PST by Golfinsocal
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To: DFG

send the leftards as an advance team and hope they run out of oxygen..


11 posted on 12/11/2017 1:46:42 PM PST by beergarden
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To: DFG

Debtor nations should not be sending people to the moon.


12 posted on 12/11/2017 1:48:34 PM PST by Leaning Right
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To: DFG

The trouble with these efforts is that they seem to invariably get bogged down in some sort of politics and are killed off by the succeeding administration.

On a side note, had DJT announced that NASA was going to use Zero-Point powered vehicles for this venture then all bets would be off. but he won’t.


13 posted on 12/11/2017 1:52:00 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: DFG

Nanzi and Chuck should be alarmed!


14 posted on 12/11/2017 1:55:22 PM PST by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: All

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goh2x_G0ct4


15 posted on 12/11/2017 1:59:38 PM PST by gibsonguy
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To: TigersEye

Send Nanzi and Hillary to Mars. Earth will thank you, POTUS!


16 posted on 12/11/2017 2:00:28 PM PST by GnuThere
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To: dfwgator

*ROFL*...That’s great!!!!!!


17 posted on 12/11/2017 2:03:45 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: DFG

I think this shift in NASA’s exploration objectives is long overdue.

Exploring Mars with probes and satellites is a worthy endeavor, that has advanced our knowledge of our neighbor planet, but exploring our own satellite makes more sense for a host of reasons.


18 posted on 12/11/2017 2:09:10 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Golfinsocal

First Female Astronaut to walk on the moon.

lol, I can just see the SJWs now, insisting that every moon mission has to be diverse, with a full array of LBGTTTQQQAAARSTUVWXYZ people on board.


19 posted on 12/11/2017 2:14:47 PM PST by caligatrux (Rage, rage against the dying of the light.)
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To: DFG

Private Space Hotels — BUH BYE!

Hello Govt Scientists studying stupid stuff.


20 posted on 12/11/2017 2:18:17 PM PST by TheNext (DACA is INVASION!)
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