NASA Bets on a New Golden Era With Artemis II and Lunar Ambitions

NASA says its first year under Trump’s second term delivered rapid progress across human spaceflight, science, and aeronautics, advancing Artemis II toward a crewed lunar flyby, logging two human missions and 15 science missions, test-flighting a new X-plane, and accelerating work on lunar exploration, Earth science, planetary defense, and nuclear propulsion to enable a sustained Moon presence by 2028, while keeping the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on track and strengthening international partnerships under a clarified national space policy and funding from the Working Families Tax Cut Act.