Space stocks are climbing in premarket trades Tuesday, lifted by President Trump’s comments championing American space exploration during his inauguration speech Monday. “We will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars,

Experts told Newsweek about the difficulties of reaching Mars as the United States faces complex challenges in space policy.

"Americans are explorers, builders, innovators, entrepreneurs and pioneers. The spirit of the frontier is written into our hearts," Trump says.

The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation, one that increases our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises our expectations and carries our flag

During his second inauguration speech, President Donald Trump endorsed a Mars mission as a part of America’s push into new horizons.

There's little need to become an interplanetary country if we can't populate the country we already have. President Donald Trump's inaugural address

"We will pursue our Manifest Destiny into the stars," he said, promising to send astronauts to plant the American flag on Mars. Elon Musk, the SpaceX CEO and Trump ally, was seated behind the president and gave a vigorous thumbs up at the remark.

Trump’s Mars pledge elicited a huge grin and enthusiastic double thumbs up from billionaire and top Mars colonization enthusiast Elon Musk, who has been pushing his Mars colony agenda for nearly a decade via his SpaceX company. Donald Trump used his inauguration speech to whine about tech billionaires’ homes being burnt down.

SpaceX is scheduled to bring home two astronauts ... s Inaugural Address linked landing on the Red Planet with Manifest Destiny, but left many of the specifics unclear. By Kenneth Chang While ...

Fortuna Investments CEO Justus Parmar expects to see “a new vintage of space companies that hit the market” in 2025.

“Manifest destiny” was the violent ... who has been pushing his Mars colony agenda for nearly a decade via his SpaceX company.

"Manifest Destiny" is back, with Donald Trump as its champion. In the 19th century, the phrase was used to invoke the divine justification for the United States to expand its territory westward all the way to the Pacific -- in bloody campaigns that saw the conquering of Mexican and Native American lands.