President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum to expand space travel, with the goal of facilitating more than 1,000 launches and reentries “on American soil” each year by 2030.

The White House seeks to encourage American exceptionalism in its approach to space travel, beginning with an overhaul of what it describes as an “outdated” National Space Transportation policy to deliver “modernized access to space transportation services.”

The memorandum directs federal agencies to expand and accelerate the nation’s space transportation, underscoring its infrastructure and commercial capabilities.

In line with the president’s establishment of the U.S. Space Force during his first administration, the memorandum sets out to strengthen military readiness and economic dominance in space.

The memorandum supports the president’s plan to return Americans to the moon and, eventually, to send people to Mars, and directs the administrator of NASA to “facilitate commercial transportation to and from the moon.” It would also “facilitate commercial robotic access to Mars,” paving the way to “explore commercial avenues to send humans to and from Mars.”

In addition, the memorandum directs the secretaries of transportation and the interior to coordinate with the secretary of war and the administrator of NASA to identify new launch and reentry sites.

The administration argues the new directive would lower costs for space systems, while creating high-paying jobs in the aerospace sector.

In addition to benefits for space travel, the memorandum will improve navigation through “better positioning, navigation,” provide more accurate weather forecasts, aiding safer and more “predictable airline travel,” and improve satellite communications, including broadband internet.

The president’s memorandum paves the way for Trump’s aggressive plan to expand human space exploration, including the Artemis missions, which saw Americans return to the moon with the Artemis II mission, in which four Americans orbited the moon in April. The mission plans to return Americans to the surface of the moon when Artemis IV launches in 2028, followed by crewed missions aimed at sending Americans to Mars.

Trump is scheduled to visit Houston’s Johnson Space Center Friday, Aug. 28, to award the four Artemis II astronauts with the Congressional Space Medal of Honor, NASA announced.