{"id":208351,"date":"2025-03-11T11:27:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T16:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/moon-or-mars-nasas-future-at-a-crossroads-under-trump"},"modified":"2025-03-11T11:27:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T16:27:55","slug":"moon-or-mars-nasas-future-at-a-crossroads-under-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/moon-or-mars-nasas-future-at-a-crossroads-under-trump","title":{"rendered":"Moon or Mars? NASA\u2019s future at a crossroads under Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/moon-or-mars-nasas-future-at-a-crossroads-under-trump2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is NASA still Moonbound, or will the next giant leap mean skipping straight to Mars?<\/p>\n<p>Speculation is mounting that the Trump administration may scale back or cancel NASA\u2019s Artemis missions following the departure of a key official and Boeing\u2019s plans to lay off hundreds of employees working on its lunar rocket.<\/p>\n<p>Late Wednesday, NASA abruptly announced the retirement of longtime associate administrator Jim Free, effective Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is NASA still Moonbound, or will the next giant leap mean skipping straight to Mars? Speculation is mounting that the Trump administration may scale back or cancel NASA\u2019s Artemis missions following the departure of a key official and Boeing\u2019s plans to lay off hundreds of employees working on its lunar rocket. Late Wednesday, NASA abruptly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}