Comment by JumpCrisscross

> In 2004, the second President Bush set a goal of returning to the Moon by 2020 and going to Mars in the 2030s, starting the Constellation program. In 2017, Trump announced that astronauts would return to the Moon, with the Artemis III project now planning a landing no earlier than 2028

Between those two the economic effects of invading Iraq came home to roost. We “won” the invasion. But lost the board.