#NASA

NASA's Space Launch System rocket lifts off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying the four-person Artemis II crew, on April 1, 2026 — the mission the proclamation cites.

Trump declares space open to American settlement in a proclamation that carries no money and no orders

The Swift spacecraft inside Hangar AE at Cape Canaveral, Florida, in July 2004, four months before launch.

NASA ends its Swift observatory after nearly 22 years and more than 2,000 gamma-ray bursts

The uncrewed Orion capsule photographed by its own solar array camera halfway to the Moon during the Artemis I mission, in November 2022.

NASA turns Artemis III into an Earth-orbit docking test with both Moon landers and keeps the landing in 2028

A Copernicus Marine Service visualization of sea surface temperature anomalies on August 25, 2026, with the band of warmer water in red stretching along the central and eastern equatorial Pacific.

NASA satellites are tracking an El Niño that NOAA gives an 83% chance of becoming the strongest since 1950