The private frontier: corporate space explorers stand by for a $1tn lift-off
by Jasper Jolly from on (#4DJ45)
Trump's ambitions for US lunar exploration will be a further boost to the billionaires building a new generation of rockets
President Donald Trump has struggled with some of his signature policy promises, but now he has set his sights higher: a return to the moon, five decades after humans last set foot there.
The White House has spoken of landing the first woman on the moon within five years and Trump's vice-president, Mike Pence, has made it clear that the private sector - much of it backed by a handful of billionaires - could play a big part in the plans.
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