President Trump should devote more NASA resourcing to high-risk, high-gain research into interstellar travel.

Don’t get me wrong, I welcome the Trump administration’s strategy to see humans back on the face of the Moon and step for the first time onto Mars. As my colleague Phil Wegmann notes, this endeavor exemplifies American dreaming even in the era of our fraught politics. Traveling to Mars presents unique scientific opportunities to benefit future generations and while there is risk involved in doing so, those who would make the trip are America’s best.