Trump has been pushing NASA to bypass the moon in it's ambitions to go directly to Mars. I think Trump is bypassing NASA by allowing SpaceX to bring about missions into Mars and Deep Space.
The evidence adds up lately especially with Musk making statements about ordering a large number of engines. He is selling all his worldly possessions because he intends to leave Earth in his lifetime. Recently, Ivanka Trump tweeted Musk on Twitter.
There is something amiss at NASA and the public has a right to know after Douglas Loverro (click here) resigned ahead of the much anticipated SpaceX launch.
...Loverro, who came to NASA in October 2019, would have presided over the Flight Readiness Review — an important safety check scheduled for later this week to get ready for the planned May 27 launch that will send two NASA astronauts on a brief journey to the international space station....
Alternate realities have alternate agendas. This is more than palace intrigue. It could be that Ivanka is seeking voters, too. Trumps do that. They try to bring in voters from every aspect of extreme USA culture. But, either way, there is something not quite right.
July 19, 2019
...Bridenstine, (click here) who was standing to the right of the president in the Oval Office, replied that the Moon is a “proving ground” for going to Mars, allowing NASA to test out technologies needed for keeping people alive for extended periods of time on the Red Planet. “When we go to Mars we’re going to have to be there for a long period of time, so we need to learn how to live and work on another world,” said Bridenstine.
The Trump administration’s stated goal for deep space human exploration is to go to the Moon. The very first space policy directive that Trump signed in December of 2017 was to send people back to the Moon to establish a sustainable presence there. “Beginning with missions beyond low-Earth orbit, the United States will lead the return of humans to the Moon for long-term exploration and utilization, followed by human missions to Mars and other destinations,” the directive states....
