On Friday, the crew of the Artemis II mission will splash down on Earth after its historic 10-day flyby of the Moon. President Donald Trump is celebrating the achievement as a patriotic win “beyond the stars” for the United States, even as funding for future scientific endeavors sits on a knife-edge thanks to his administration’s priorities.
“America is going back to the Moon,” Trump posted to his social network Truth Social on April 1. “America doesn’t just compete, we DOMINATE, and the whole world is watching.”