Private astronauts may be flying commercial spaceships around the moon in just a few years thanks to a renewed public-private partnership in space championed by Donald Trump.
Memos from Donald Trump’s NASA transition team have proposed an internal competition to return American astronauts to the moon, transition to private space stations, and emphasize commercial development, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The space race didn’t receive a lot of attention during the presidential election, but Trump did promise to push public-private partnerships as a way to advance America’s standing in space while still reining in the budget.
In a memo to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Trump’s NASA transition team member Charles Miller suggested a competition between Old Space and New Space to find a way to get back to the moon, according to Inverse.
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