Mr. Trump is determined to bring the Americans back to the Moon
Unwilling to be overwhelmed by China's ambition, the US president signed a decree to deploy the mission to bring Americans back to explore the universe.
According to Reuters news agency, in the ceremony of signing the ordinance on space policy on Monday (December 11) US time at the White House, Mr. Trump affirmed that the US will still have to maintain its leading position in the field of discovery. , conquer the universe.
Accordingly the US will start the process and move toward the goal of conquering Mars in the future.
Watch a toy model simulating an astronaut while attending the signing ceremony of the space policy decree at the 11/12 White House - (Photo: REUTERS).
Mr. Trump said: "We are the leader and we will still be the leader, we will increase that many times."
According to CNN (USA), along with the signing of the decree, the US president commissioned NASA's leadership Robert M. Lightfoot Jr. is the "operator of the advanced space exploration program that will bring American astronauts back to the Moon and eventually Mars."
The presidential decree on the space exploration program signed by the president will aim to create a base on the moon to meet the mission of conquering the moon and then conquering Mars.
Mr. Trump said: " This time we will not only flag or leave our footprints, we will establish a basis to serve the ultimate mission of reaching out to Mars. And maybe, someday reaching out to many other worlds ".
Since June this year, China has claimed that the country has preliminary preparations to bring people to the moon, the latest goal in Beijing's ambitious moon exploration program.
Also at the ceremony to sign a new program on space, Mr. Trump said he was taking a big step in "regaining America's pride in the universe" . He also said: "Aerospace is related to many other application areas, including military applications."
NASA said the initial budget for implementing the new policy will be raised by them in the budget estimate submission for the agency's fiscal year 2019.
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