Trump can lead way in space by encouraging cooperation

Having faced a lot of flak recently, US President Donald Trump may have found some relief in the widespread support he received for the new space policy directive he signed on Monday.

Promising to "restore American leadership in space", he called on Americans to imagine the possibilities of "daring to dream big" when he announced that his administration is planning to send astronauts to the moon once again.

It's a smaller dream than his predecessor's, for whom the moon was always a case of been there, done that. But then it is the more pragmatic way to get to Mars.