Trump administration officials are pledging to send Americans back to the moon – and then on to Mars.

Vice President Mike Pence told a meeting of the National Space Council, the first such session since 1993, that the U.S. ‘will return American astronauts to the moon.’

‘Not only to leave behind footprints and flags, but to build the foundations we need to send Americans to Mars and beyond.’

Space industry leaders say they and NASA are building the spaceships to get there. And they’re promising that in five years, astronauts could be working around the moon – but not quite land there yet.

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