This legislation, the committee said in a messaging document, “devotes almost $ 10 billion to win the new space trace with China and to ensure that America dominates space. Makes focused, critical investments in Mars-Forward technology, Artemis missions and Moon to Mars program and the international space station.”
The reality is that it indicates that Republicans in the US Senate are not particularly interested in sending people to Mars, are probably in order with the most cuts on science programs at NASA, and want to keep the status quo on Artemis, including the Space Launch System Rocket.
Where things go from here
It is hard to predict where the American space policy will go from here. The very public apart between President Trump and the founder of SpaceX Elon Musk On Thursday, the comparison complicates considerably. At one point Trump and Musk both came up to send people to Mars, but Musk is away from the administration and Trump can leave that idea because of their gap.
For what it is worth, a political appointed in NASA Communications said on Thursday that the president's vision of space – Trump spoke about people on Mars during his campaign views – will still be implemented.
“NASA will continue to implement the president's vision for the future of space,” said Nasa's Perss Secretary, Bethany Stevens, on X. “We will continue to work with our industrial partners to ensure that the objectives of the president are achieved in space.”
It seems that the congress might go in a different direction.
