President Trump Signs Executive Order to Create US Space Academy

NASA News reports that on August twenty‑eight, twenty twenty‑six President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order establishing the nation’s first United States Space Academy at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The academy will combine technical education with leadership development to ready a new generation of service members, engineers, and civilian operators for the expanding Space Force and commercial space sector. The order names NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman as chair of a new presidential commission, with Deputy Administrator Matt Anderson as its executive director, and brings in senior White House science and economic advisers as vice chairs. That commission must turn in a report within one hundred twenty days, outlining the academy’s governance, service obligations for graduates, physical location, and any needed legislation. The initiative is positioned as a way to supply the talent essential for upcoming lunar missions, a moon base, and a growing orbital economy.

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