What can be expected from a second Trump administration on space policy? In short, a mixture of continuity and change. There will be a lot of continuity in military, civil and industrial space policy, as they rarely differ between political parties. Changes usually involve minor or incremental bureaucratic changes.

However, Trump’s faint speech hugging Elon Muskalong with the founder of SpaceX management appointment a new department of government efficiency could signal a different approach to the industrial and human spaceflight aspects of space policy.