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Astronaut Gene Cernan on the lunar surface, next to an American flag sticking out of the lunar rover, December 2017. The ceremony to announce the American return to the moon took place yesterday, December 11, the day that marked the 45th anniversary of the landing of Apollo 17 on the lunar surface, the last manned mission in the Apollo program . Source: NASA / Harrison H. Schmitt.

Trump ordered NASA to return American astronauts to the moon

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Trump signed a law that increases NASA's budget for 2017; He will renew the National Space Council, which will be chaired by Vice President Pence

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A simulation of the "Asteroid Deflection Mission", which is currently in the planning stages without final approval. According to the mission schedule, a space vehicle, transported by an advanced ion engine, will reach a near-Earth asteroid, land on it and grab a rock block with a mass of several tons and move it into orbit around the moon. There, astronauts in the Orion spacecraft will reach the asteroid piece and return samples from it to Earth. The mission combines both the scientific aspect of asteroid research, but is primarily done to prove and realize advanced electric ion propulsion technology that will assist in future Mars probes. Image: NASA.

The sword of cuts in Trump's budget proposal will not significantly harm NASA

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US President Barack Obama speaks at the Kennedy Space Center on February 15, 2010, in a speech in which he presented his plan for the future of the American Space Launch Program. Photo: NASA/Bill Ingalls.

Obama's space vision - a manned flight to Mars in the thirties

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