But the language that startled me—maybe because I didn’t expect it, even from Donald Trump—was “manifest destiny.” Seriously.

NASA employees received a memo from acting agency administrator Janet Petro, Wednesday, mandating the closure of all diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility initiatives and contracts.

The president’s Inaugural Address linked landing on the Red Planet with Manifest Destiny, but left many of the specifics unclear.

In a daring vision for the future of space exploration, President Donald Trump, during his second inaugural address, declared that it is America’s

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During his inaugural address, President Donald Trump said he wants 'American astronauts' on Mars. Where does a future Mars mission currently stand?

The second Trump administration started with soaring rhetoric about sending humans to Mars but confusion about who was leading NASA on an acting basis.

Space stocks soared on Tuesday as bullish sentiment in the sector swelled after Donald Trump took office. Read more.

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — Janet Petro has served as Director of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center since June of 2021. Now, the Trump Administration has named Petro the acting NASA Administrator. Dr. Ken Kremer with Space UpClose told us, “Usually they pick someone, the number three person who’s at the headquarters. So that would have been somebody else.”

Lost in the drama of President Donald Trump's flurry of executive orders and Inauguration Day announcements was this: He vowed to send astronauts to Mars. We are on board. Trump made similar promises in his first tenure in office and backed them up with additional NASA funding.

Pure-play space stocks flew higher on Tuesday, in a rally described as exuberance about the sector after President Donald Trump’s inauguration.