Kazakhstan's president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed a new law on Saturday, which reinstated 'Astana' as the capital's name and also limited presidential terms of office to a single seven-year stint.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, or " FDR" as we more commonly call him, died in his fourth term of office, during World War II, and the vice president (in the United States) becomes president if the president dies.
The fact that Regulus' term of office would soon be over, and he himself would be replaced by the next year's magistrate, probably played a major role in his thinking.
It's arrival on the moon will now fall conveniently within the second term of office of Mr. Pence and his boss Donald Trump should they be reelected in 2020.
The fact is, by the time he died, just a few months into his second term of office, Harold Washington had put together a working majority on the council.