Trump unlikely to launch SpaceX missile - lunar lander / 2027 may come & go with no Rocket to go & return

U.S. is losing race to return to moon

UPDATE: 09/20/us/politics/

spacex-us-moon-race.html

POLITICO reports that

Space industry professionals and

Capitol Hill staffers describe

a rudderless administration when

it comes to space policy, with no

single person driving the big 

shifts:

NASA will lose billions in the

upcoming Trump 2.0 budget for

a lunar space station but it would

plow money into a highly difficult

mission to Mars -- in the Jan. 20

2025 Inaugural address, Trump 2.0

promised a human landing on Mars

-- a goal long held by SpaceX founder

Elon Musk . . .the budget overhauls

and displacements of funding directly

contradict NASA nominee Jared Isaacman's

support for the lunar base missions in

the near future.

politico.com/2025/05/14/trump-space-policy-leadership-void