What did Trump mean when he said "foot prints in other planets" ?

I hope so.

He meant the Moon.

@Sneki95 I do not know if he considers the moon as a planet? He used the word planet. Can someone provide a link to that 5 second part of his speech?

@RedDeerGuy1 [insert “alternative facts” joke here]

“NASA is developing the capabilities needed to send humans to an asteroid by 2025 and Mars in the 2030s – goals outlined in the bipartisan NASA Authorization Act of 2010 and in the U.S. National Space Policy, also issued in 2010.” – NASA Journey to Mars

The Mars trip is one-way. Maybe Trump will sign an executive order to use it to deport immigrants.

Maybe we could convince him to do a site visit for the new Trump Tower – the first skyscraper in space

From a quick read through all I see is one possible reference.

“American footprints on distant worlds are not too big a dream”

Which is, how do you say, a little light on details. I think trying to guess what he means wouldn’t be of much good.

For what it’s worth, non-defense agencies are expected to cut their budgets by 10% in Trump’s initial budget. NASA would be part of that unless there’s some exception. Of course, even that is a long way from actually happening.

Dear God let those first steps on another planet be his! And soon!

Seriously, can we all please grow up?
Must every posting hereafter be clouded by personal opinions of Donald Trump?
There are jellies I used to respect, and hold in high regard, who lately seem petty and small to me.
I would like to see the link to that part of the speech also, if anyone could supply it?

If growing up means it will be
Beneath my dignity to climb a tree,
I’ll never grow up.
Never grow up!
Never grow up!
Not me!

”Seriously, can we all please grow up?”
Trump first.

Anyway, he wants to invade other planets to steal their resources.

I think he means that when we get to other planets, we will not do handstands or use pogo sticks (even though we might want to). And we won’t crawl like one year olds.

Rather, we will walk on those planets with our heads high and our shoulders wide, as we get slaughtered by the native Martians and Jovians.

@Patty_Melt – There is a link, and the quote, a couple comments before yours.

If you don’t want the annotated version, there’s a couple others out there – full speech text

“American footprints on distant worlds are not too big a dream.” He is likely talking about an expedition to Mars or he may be referring to the many planets that are being discovered in other solar systems. It is indeed a wonderful dream but it shouldn’t be expressed in such narrow nationalistic terms. I blame his scriptwriters for this one.

@funkdaddy, I tried those text links several times. The page keeps doing a nose dive before I can scroll past four paragraphs.

@LostInParadise “The Mars trip is one-way.”

Not what NASA is planning. There has been a private group on two toss around this idea, but NASA has not, nor will it. NASA doesn’t plan missions with the intent of them being no return, not even back when they were sending animals into space.

Uh, no. Not unless it falls under the military budget. That is the only thing that get an increase (Yes, homeland security and other such crap falls under the military as far as I can tell.) everything else gets a bloody splinter up the ass.

All space travel is now internationally coordinated. @Darth_Algar and @flutherother are right. They with be Earth man’s footprints.

@cazzie – Is that something new? As I understand it, each space agency has it’s own budget, goals, and autonomy.. They’ve shared information and checked each other’s work, but there’s no real coordination that i know of. It’s still covered as “China launches satellite”, “launched on a Russian rocket”, “SpaceX is going to the moon”, etc.

Would love to read more on coordination, but I don’t think we’re there yet.

@funkdaddy The Russians are the only way any one gets to the ISS. So…. Not sure what you’re talking about. https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/nasa-knows/what-is-the-soyuz-spacecraft-k-4

You want to read more about it? Here, for starters: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/cooperation/index.html

and HERE with the Orion project: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/international-partnership-with-europe-extended-for-space-station-orion

I’m sorry, I wasn’t trying to be snarky. Just admitting I don’t know everything.

There is also the International Space Exploration Coordination Group (group website as well), but it’s really just a forum for the scientists involved.

There isn’t a mixing of projects and funds as of yet, that I’m aware of, but it seems like it would be a huge step forward as we differentiate the private/commercial space companies from the public/scientific space efforts.

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Yes. There is a mix of projects and funding. Please read the links I provided.

I don’t know about their international-ness, but there are three crewed spacecraft being developed in the US today.

NASA Orion (mentioned above)

Boeing Starliner CST-100

SpaceX Crew Dragon

@funkdaddy

“All space travel” – operative word there being “travel”. IE: sending human beings into space. Plenty of space agencies (some private), send rockets, etc into space, but thus far all manned spaceflight has been done through ether NASA or the Russian space agency, with, for the time being (since the end of NASA’s Space Shuttle program) all manned space flights, including NASA’s, being done from Baikonur Cosmodrome (located in Kazakhstan, but leased and operated by Russia).

China has launched ten astronauts taikonauts into space since 2003.

“All space travel is now internationally coordinated”

That’s the quote that prompted my question. Let’s not get it twisted beyond that. I’m aware of the current methods and NASA’s current projects. I was hoping there was something new. I was excited that maybe I missed an announcement, did a quick search and didn’t see anything.

Let’s be real. Right now, there isn’t a meaningful international cooperative to coordinate trips to space. It doesn’t have to be more complicated than that.

Obviously the ISS is an international cooperative effort.

But the other crewed endeavors are national programs.

Wow… what the hell….. did I not just present to you all that there is Funding and co operational situational things going on?

??

The facts are not in dispute.

I was just told I was being deleted in threads… so…. what isn’t in dispute… I’m not sure.