Trump signs order to create a US Space Academy

NASA, the Space Force, and private companies share one task now: training people to build America's future in space. President Trump signed an executive order Friday to formalize that, calling for a new U.S. Space Academy. He signed it at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. There's no campus, curriculum, or start date yet. The order only creates a commission to design one.

This fits a bigger pattern. Space has become one of his administration's clearest priorities. A new academy would mean the government isn't just funding space missions. It wants a dedicated pipeline of trained people to keep that going for decades. Politico reported that even basic details, like what the academy will actually look like, weren't clear from the order itself.

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Will Congress actually fund a new federal academy, or does this stay a symbolic order? Building a real academy costs real money and years of planning: a campus, faculty, admissions. The commission created Friday has to answer those questions before this becomes more than an announcement.