Trump Orders Pentagon Pete to Send Nuclear Reactors to Space

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The Daily Beast

Evelyn Hockstein / REUTERSPresident Donald Trump has a big new ask of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The White House has ordered NASA, the Department of Energy, and the Pentagon to compete in designing nuclear reactors to be in the moon’s orbit by the end of Trump’s second term and on its surface by 2030. Trump’s demand came in a memo sent to the agencies on Tuesday, four months after he signed an executive order outlining plans for nuclear power on the moon—a necessity for establishing a permanent moon base, expanding space exploration, and achieving “space superiority.”Read more at The Daily Beast.