NASA credits Trump policies for space program progress in first year of second term

One year into President Donald J. Trump’s second term, NASA says it has delivered measurable progress across human spaceflight, science, aeronautics and cutting‑edge technology, calling these advances the start of a new Golden Age of American space leadership driven by clear national direction and historic investment through the Working Families Tax Cut Act.

The agency said it has sharpened its mission under President Trump’s national space policy and pointed to accomplishments from the President’s first term — standing up the U.S. Space Force, commencing the Artemis campaign, establishing the Artemis Accords (which the release said now have 60 signatories), and returning American astronauts to human spaceflight from U.S.

soil following the space shuttle era. In the first year of the President’s second term, NASA said it has flown two human spaceflight missions, launched 15 science missions and successfully test‑flown a new X‑plane while accelerating work across lunar exploration, Earth science, planetary defense, next‑generation aeronautics and technologies for future Mars missions.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman was quoted in the release saying, “In the first year of this administration, NASA has moved with clarity, purpose, and momentum, advancing President Trump’s bold vision for American leadership in space.

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