It also calls on NASA to cancel its extremely expensive Moon rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), after Artemis 3 — the first planned lunar landing in the Artemis program, currently slated for 2028 — which also aligns with the White House’s proposed changes to the program.

The Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile will take flight from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

Elon Musk appears to be in line for a $2 billion of government work for President Donald Trump’s Golden Dome defense project. His SpaceX firm is set to win the massive project to develop and build the missile- and aircraft-tracking satellites, according to people briefed on the plan.