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American is ready to explore

May 6, 2019

From SpaceNews: Commentary by Jack Burns - At the recent National Space Council meeting, U.S. Vice President Pence challenged the nation to begin exploring space again with a human mission to the moon’s south pole by 2024. Public-private-academic partnerships will help us accelerate a new lunar program. Such successful collaborations...

Vice President Mike Pence, center in Mission Control Houston, will oversee all space decisions made by the Trump administration.

Vice President may tell NASA to accelerate lunar landings

March 21, 2019

From Ars Technica: One of the panelists who will appear at a National Space Council meeting next Tuesday said to expect "a few fireworks" during the discussion, which will focus on NASA's efforts to return humans to the Moon. The meeting of this council that oversees US spaceflight policy will...

National Space Council Public meeting in February 2018 at the Kennedy Space Center.

National Space Council to meet to discuss exploration plans

March 20, 2019

From Space News: The National Space Council will hold its next public meeting March 26 to discuss NASA’s human space exploration plans. The council is slated to meet on the afternoon of March 26 at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The meeting will be the fifth...