The United States has gotten its new marching orders, which means a huge change is coming for the final frontier. President Donald Trump signed a wide-ranging executive order on Thursday, Dec. 18, called 'Ensuring American Space Superiority'. This order set off a new era of competition in space. The order makes it clear that the White House sees dominance outside of our atmosphere as the key to both national security and future economic growth.
'The United States must therefore pursue a space policy that will extend the reach of human discovery, secure the Nation's vital economic and security interests, unleash commercial development and lay the foundation for a new space age,' the document states. The order explicitly treats space as 'critical infrastructure', moving beyond symbolic exploration to focus on tangible orbital control.
