The future of U.S. space exploration and NASA-funded science is up in the air as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to return to office.
“There’s just so many question marks,” says political scientist Victoria Samson. Where will humans go in space, and when? What will SpaceX billionaire and close presidential adviser Elon Musk’s influence be over NASA and space policy? What does the nomination of billionaire space tourist Jared Isaacman to lead NASA mean?
“If I have one thing to say, everything is unclear,” says Samson, who is in the Washington, D.C., office of the Secure World Foundation, a nonprofit space sustainability organization. “Anything could happen.”
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