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Both the U.S. and China seek to establish a lunar base that would test humanity’s ability to live beyond Earth.
Artemis III would keep astronauts on the surface for over a week and deliver payloads to help begin the foundation of a base.
WASHINGTON — Early in his first term, President Trump held a modest ceremony directing NASA to return humans to the moon for the first time in 50 years. It was a goalpost set without a road map. Veterans of the space community reflected on the 2017 document , conspicuously silent on budgets and timelines, equivocating between excitement and concern.
Was Trump setting up a giveaway to special interests in the aerospace community? Or was he se