I was under the impression that NASA does not set its own agenda. I think eight years of Trump will have NASA going places again. It’s time to go back to the moon. Young Americans need to see it happen in their own lifetimes, and it would hurt if the rest of the world could also get the message.
It gets x amount of dollars and decides what it will spend money on. It’s directors have no foresight and are quite content to watch China and other nations eclipse us if they can.
We had a 50 year jump on other nations, and we diddled it away.
We could have had Moon bases by now, Mars colonies...
Instead we have NASA that can’t put a man in space, much less on a heavenly body.
It spent $90 billion of a $10 billion space station, and quickly labeled it an international space station.
It’s so terrified the U. S. will be seen as a premier “anything” that it dodges any chance of it quite successfully.
I agree with your Trump suggestions.
We will either dominate space, or be forever talked about as a nation that declined by choice.