So far, as president, Donald Trump has said all the right things about space. He wants NASA focused on exploration again. He wants men flying back to the moon in 2018. In his pseudo-State of the Union last week, he reminded the country that “American footprints on distant worlds are not too big a dream.” At the very beginning of his term, Trump appears to be making space a priority, and NASA is on board: last week, it began to process of brining the manned circumlunar flight it has planned for 2021 forward to September of next year.

Also last week: another hat was thrown into the circumlunar ring, the hat of Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Last Monday—about two weeks after President Trump asked NASA to speed up its return to the moon—SpaceX announced that it plans to send a “privately crewed Dragon spacecraft beyond the moon next year.”