Trump Finds Pet Project That’s Actually Worthwhile: An ‘America First’ Space Policy

Americans are going back to the moon. 

President Donald Trump signed an executive order setting a “bold vision for an America First space policy” Thursday. Among other items, the order “calls for Americans’ return to the Moon by 2028, and the establishment of initial elements of a permanent lunar outpost by 2030” and “directs the deployment of nuclear reactors on the Moon and in orbit, including a lunar surface reactor ready for launch by 2030.” (RELATED:Celebrities Are Literally Launching Themselves Into Space And It’s Still Boring As Hell) 

The Trump administration has its sights set on further space exploration, too. The executive order cites a promise made by Trump: “We will lead humanity back to the moon, and the United States will be the first nation to land an astronaut on Mars.”

Trump’s executive order comes not a moment too soon. China claims it’s on track to land astronauts on the moon by 2030, the AP reported Oct. 30. 

“Currently, each program of the research and development work of putting a person on the moon is progressing smoothly,” Zhang Jingbo, spokesman for the China Manned Space Program, told the outlet. “Our fixed goal of China landing a person on the moon by 2030 is firm.”

President Trump just signed an executive order to:

– Build a moon base
– Deploy nuclear reactors to the moon
– Build out an industrial base in space
– Clean up space debris
– Make space travel cheap
– Return Americans to the moon, immediately

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Undoubtedly, some will object to the Trump administration’s goals as being “out of touch.” Or as being sexist, or colonialist, or whatever.

In 1969, Ralph Abernathy, Martin Luther King Jr.’s successor at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), reportedly carried a sign reading, “$12 a day to feed an astronaut. We could feed a starving child for $8.” 

Then there’s the infamous photo of an obese woman and her wheelchair bound child protesting at a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) site. They pose with a sign reading, “Billions $ For Space, Pennies For The Hungry[.]” (RELATED: Democrats Brutally Roasted For Rolling Out Morbidly Obese Woman To Defend Food Stamps) 

If we had it their way, America would blow all $7 trillion or so of the federal budget on happy meals for morbidly obese individuals, freely handing control of the next few centuries to China.

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