Trump Throws Elon Musk's Mars Mission Under the Bus

In spite of Elon Musk agitating for it, president Donald Trump isn't interested in making a crewed mission to Mars his "number one" priority. As SpaceNews reports, Trump was lukewarm on the goal of sending humans to the Red Planet during a Fox News interview. "There’s a lot of interest in going to Mars," he told Fox News on Sunday. "Is it number one on my hit list? No. It’s not really." That's despite declaring that the US would "plant the American flag on the planet Mars and even far beyond" during his speech to Congress earlier this month, a line that was met with plenty of applause. Trump also said during the Fox interview that he was "shocked" by the reaction to his remarks about planting a flag on the planet during his Congressional speech. "There seems to be a big interest in it," he added. Now that Musk has infiltrated the Trump administration and installed himself and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency as the ones controlling the purse strings, the topic of ... Read full article.