The United States is still leading the rest of the world in space
exploration - for the present. No doubt the Chinese, Japanese, and others
will be at the heels of the US for years to come. Without these worthy
competiters, I'm afraid the US president, would easily allow NASA to sink
into miserable funding levels, ignorant of what space exploration does for
the economy and human life in general. The Russians have been reduced to a
support extension of the US, but fortunately, one which is capable of
standing on its own.