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Un astronauta planta una bandera junto a un módulo lunar con la Tierra al fondo
Un astronauta en la superficie lunar junto a un módulo de alunizaje, con la Tierra visible en el cielo. · Imagen generada para EPM

Trump proclaims space as the province of all humanity

President Donald J. Trump proclaimed on the third day of November, in the year two thousand twenty-six, that the solar system and outer space are the province…

--- The context --- President Donald J. Trump signed a presidential proclamation on the third day of November, in the year two thousand twenty-six, on the future of the United States in space. The text reaffirms the country's exploratory calling and links the present moment to a tradition that the proclamation itself describes as a legacy of innovation that must keep opening new horizons of exploration and discovery. --- The facts --- The proclamation declares that the solar system and all of outer space beyond Earth are the province of all humans and are open to exploration, development, use, and the establishment of a permanent presence by American citizens, consistent with United States law and the international obligations of the United States. It is a presidential declaration, not a law and not an appropriation of funds. The document recalls that the Apollo 11 astronauts took humanity's first steps on the Moon and that pioneering rovers explored the surface of Mars. It also states that Artemis II carried astronauts around the Moon this past April, farther from Earth than any human had traveled before, and that next summer Artemis III will undertake a complex test flight campaign within the nation's space program. --- The positions --- The position set by the proclamation is that the United States must lead the way in the exploration, development, use, and permanent presence in space, on the basis of individual liberty. The text holds that the executive orders and directives signed are reinvigorating human spaceflight and a competitive commercial space industry, and it sets the goals of returning to the Moon by 2028, laying the foundation for a permanent lunar presence, and hastening the first human on Mars, with faith and freedom as guiding values. --- What remains unknown --- The proclamation does not detail how the goals it announces will be financed or carried out step by step. It also does not specify the intermediate schedule between the Artemis III campaign next summer and the return to the Moon in 2028, nor does it describe the facilities and resources that the text itself mentions as necessary to sustain a permanent presence beyond Earth. --- Unanswered questions --- What concrete steps separate the Artemis III test flight campaign from the crewed return to the Moon in 2028? How will the permanent lunar presence that the proclamation sets as the basis of the next stage be organized? What form will the advance toward the first human on Mars take once the announced lunar goal is met? --- EPM analysis --- The most useful reading of the document distinguishes between the principle it proclaims and the program it describes. The principle is broad and permanent in its wording, because it opens space to exploration and to the presence of citizens under United States law and international obligations. The program, by contrast, rests on milestones dated by the proclamation itself, so its fulfillment can be checked mission by mission without the need for additional interpretation. 📌 EPM Take: In EPM's view, the proclamation sets a clear and datable ambition, with a return to the Moon by 2028 and a permanent presence as the horizon, but its force is declarative rather than operational, because the text does not detail means, intermediate milestones or who owns each step, so the real value of the declaration will be measured by the execution of Artemis III next summer and by the continuity the program sustains well beyond today's solemn announcement alone.
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