Me, "Basically, Trump says he supports NASA. It should focus on deep space activities. Could mean continues support for Human manned Mars and or Moon missions. Maybe, even Asteroid missions. Less focus on Earth satellite science missions, to be picked up by other U.S. agencies, who would launch their satellites on commercial rockets, leaving NASA out of the equation totally. (Why should NASA waste its own money when another U.S. government organization can pick up the check?) New deep space probes missions to the other planets, including advanced Space Telescopes, already being built, and, a build up of an experimental and eventual full fledged Space Missile Defense Program. I am guessing about a lot of this stuff so just use it as a kind of food for thought."
From article, "China: We will be on Mars by 2020"
(During his campaign, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump professed his love for NASA and that "space is terrific." His senior advisors have advocated a "new vision" for the U.S. space program.
"NASA should be focused primarily on deep space activities rather than Earth-centric work that is better handled by other agencies," wrote Robert Walker and Peter Navarro in October.
"While the American government's space program has suffered from under-investment, both China and Russia continue to move briskly forward with military-focused initiatives," they added. "Each continues to develop weapons explicitly designed... to 'deny, degrade, deceive, disrupt, or destroy' America's eyes and ears in space.")
