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The No. 1 threat to getting America back to the moon and beyond

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NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman says America will not only get back to the moon within a few years, and also build a permanent, inhabited base there within the next two decades; what he leaves out is the clear fact that the chief peril for dreams of becoming an interplanetary species is a Democratic Party victory in 2028.

Isaacman’s techno-optimism is something the nation desperately needs, the kind of inspiring vision increasingly rare in American politics.

Americans love space and our efforts to explore it as far and as fast as possible. Polls show about 70% of us want to return to the moon; the stunning success of this year’s Artemis II’s lunar flyby has kindled our collective imagination. 

Going to the moon — landing there, let alone building a base — will fan those flames further, inspiring patriotism and recruiting a generation of little kids to be future astronauts. 

On the science, we have to return and build a base there if we’re serious about getting to Mars and beyond: It will play a key beachhead role in further solar-system exploration (to say nothing of the scientific benefits we may reap, like moon-abundant helium isotopes crucial to........

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