Trump could ditch US’ $93 billion efforts to return to the moon to fuel Musk’s Mars dreams - SpaceX founder Elon Musk has called the moon a ‘distraction’ and signaled a shift toward Mars

Speculation is mounting that the Trump administration may scale back or cancel NASA's Artemis missions following the departure of a key official and Boeing's plans to lay off hundreds of employees working on its lunar rocket.

The US space agency is losing four senior officials, insiders say, including a key defender of the Artemis missions Nasa is losing four key senior officials close to its flagship moon programme, according to people familiar with the changes,