Trump-Backed Funding Shift Puts NASA Moon Program Ahead of Musk’s Mars Plans

Former President Donald Trump has thrown his weight—and $10 billion in federal funding—behind NASA’s Artemis program, a move that slows Elon Musk’s long-standing ambition to focus U.S. resources on a human mission to Mars.

SpaceX vs. Artemis

For more than a decade, Musk’s private company SpaceX has worked toward launching astronauts to the Red Planet and, eventually, establishing a settlement there. Continues…