Axios

Officials from the Trump, Biden, Obama and Bush administrations, defense and intelligence experts, lawmakers, scientists, and investors are huddling in Texas this week to plot American primacy amid a global realignment.

Why it matters: Michael Kratsios, Trump's chief science-and-technology policy adviser, in an interview said U.S. national and economic security is contingent on "technological dominance." He delivered his first public address at the Endless Frontiers summit Monday — its only on-the-record segment.

A draft White House budget plan floating around would steeply cut NASA's Earth Sciences division that's the centerpiece of the agency's climate work.

Why it matters: "Such NASA cuts would require ending the operations of a huge host of earth science satellites," Paul Voosen writes in Science.

Singer Katy Perry, CBS anchor Gayle King and other well-known women set off to space on Monday morning in Blue Origin's 11th human spaceflight mission.

Why it matters: This is the first all-woman space crew in U.S. history.