At least 2,145 senior-ranking NASA employees are set to leave under a push to shed staff, according to documents obtained by POLITICO — potentially spelling trouble for White House space policy and depriving the agency of decades of experience.
Handing the next century of space exploration to China, who is planning a sample return mission to Mars by 2028, land on the Moon by 2030, and construct a moon base by 2035. 
It’s going to be a running theme of the next few decades i feel. Americans failing to compete because they are too corrupt, and profit focused to be viable. Wonder how long it’ll be before America has to beg China to save some stranded American astronaut who got sent halfway to the moon in a SpaceX Starship, and the thing just failed.