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Now the race seems to be with China, which has its own plans to get its astronauts to the moon before the end of the decade.

Trump kicked off the Artemis program in his first term, and later it was endorsed by the Biden administration.

Last week, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman talked about the program's trajectory.

The moon base will cost an estimated $20 billion over the next seven years, and the Artemis program overall has already cost nearly $100 billion.

Gresh said that there are still some questions about why Congress is willing to spend $20 billion and implement moon landers that are built by the private companies SpaceX and Blue Origin.

Artemis II is scheduled to launch tomorrow at 6.24 p.m.

Eastern Time.

There's a little-known immigration court that's become increasingly important under the Trump administration.

And as NPR has been reporting, it could be quietly reshaping policy in some dramatic ways.

Under the U.S.

Constitution, non-citizens, including undocumented immigrants, are guaranteed due process rights.

That means the government is expected to take steps to ensure fairness in deportation proceedings, including providing a right to a hearing.

Ximena Bustillo covers immigration policy for NPR.

After the hearing process concludes, a judge makes their ruling which immigrants could appeal.

After that, the case would go to an obscure administrative court.

Because of that, the Trump administration has been able to reshape the Board of Immigration Appeals, and it's helping them execute its mass deportation campaign and set immigration policy across the country.

For one thing, the size of the board has shrunk from 28 judges to 15.

Most of them were selected by Trump.

This board also makes decisions which set precedents for how immigration law gets interpreted.

Bustillo told us that it's in these decisions where she saw the impact of how the administration has changed the board's makeup.