It's America's 'Manifest Destiny' to plant a flag on Mars, Trump says : Highlights from Donald Trump's 2025 inauguration Trump says Americans should look to the stars, by sending astronauts to Mars.

What does this mean for NASA and SpaceX? Trump's speech was far from the first time that manifest destiny has been invoked ...

NASA has the Perseverance rover on a Mars mission now. Earlier this month, the agency announced ways to simplify its mission of retrieving valuable samples stashed on the rover, with the goal of ...

Invoking language such as “manifest destiny” sends a signal about who belongs in America’s future in space and who doesn’t. In mentioning manifest destiny, Trump has resurrected an idea ...

Depending on whom you ask, the concept of “manifest destiny” might mean the Wild West or the undoing of Native Americans. But there's no question it's long been defunct — until Trump brought ...

President Trump vowed Monday to be the first commander-in-chief to put US astronauts on Mars. “The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation, one that increases our wealth ...

NASA is determined to land astronauts on the moon again. The agency wants to do it very soon, in mid-2027, an extremely ambitious timeline. But in his inaugural address, President Donald Trump ...

The aerospace community was caught off guard this week by President Trump’s withdrawal of tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman’s NASA nomination. Announced days before the Senate’s likely c… ...

Trump sends moon rock back to NASA that had been displayed in White House since 2021 Since President Donald Trump took office in January, the moon rock collected during the iconic Apollo missions ...

The implications of "manifest destiny" for NASA and the broader space sector remain unclear. Bowen noted that Trump specifically mentioning Mars in the inauguration speech carries more weight in ...