Signed by the current Acting Administrator Sean Duffy, NASA Headquarters released a plan that calls for creating a new position, the Fission Surface Power Program Executive, who would oversee this effort, working to award contracts within the next eight months to up to two industry providers to push forward this effort.

The new temporary head of NASA wants to get nuclear power on the moon before China, which could mean another Florida launch with radioactive material.

Spurred by competition from China and Russia, the Trump administration is pushing for nuclear power on the moon by 2030