This is wrong. Accelerating a return to the moon came from Trump. Please see: https://www.google.com/amp/nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2019/01/trump-offered-nasa

This is wrong. Accelerating a return to the moon came from Trump. Please see: https://www.google.com/amp/nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2019/01/trump-offered-nasa-unlimited-funding-to-go-to-mars-by-2020.html https://www.google.com/amp/nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2019/... Some have speculated that the NASA (acting) Administrator at the time, Robert Lightfoot, was replaced with Bridenstine because the latter would back a fast return to the moon.