Trump NSC signing
President Donald Trump, flanked by astronauts, members of Congress and Vice President Mike Pence, signs an executive order June 30, 2017, re-establishing the National Space Council.

President Donald Trump is scheduled to sign his administration’s first space policy directive in a White House ceremony Dec. 11, one that may formally direct NASA to send humans back to the moon.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...