Here’s What Trump’s Win Means for NASA

If history is any guide, President-elect Donald Trump will be placing a phone call to the moon sometime within the next four years. That’s the way it worked in 1969, when Apollo 11’s Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first pressed human bootprints into the Sea of Tranquility and NASA patched a call from President Richard Nixon in the Oval Office to the astronauts on the lunar surface. According to the space agency’s current flight manifest, the Artemis II mission will carry a crew of four on a flyby...