Former Vice President Mike Pence is singing the praises of President Donald Trump's space agenda, framing it as a bold continuation of efforts to cement American dominance beyond Earth's atmosphere. On Saturday, Pence took to X to share a clip of Trump speaking at a NASA event, and his accompanying message was nothing short of a full-throated endorsement.
"President @realDonaldTrump should be commended for reviving and sustaining American Leadership in Space," Pence wrote. He went on to credit the administration for bringing astronauts back to space on American rockets, launching the Artemis program to return to the Moon, and creating the U.S. Space Force. "The Trump administration continues the quest to carry American Ideals and Leadership into Space," he added, before wrapping up with a simple, "Well Done Mr. President."
In the clip Pence shared, Trump was in full visionary mode, declaring that his administration had yanked the space program out of the shadows. "As the world can see today under the Trump administration, we have brought back America's space program and came out of the dark age and it's now into the golden age," Trump said. He didn't stop there, vowing that the U.S. would dominate the next chapter of exploration. "Our nation will conquer and we will conquer indeed this vast frontier that we have before us," he declared. "We will explore it, we will tame it and we will win it. We will always win."
This isn't just talk. On Friday, Trump signed an executive order to revive a U.S. Space Academy, aimed at training the next generation of astronauts, engineers, and scientists while tackling workforce shortages at NASA and the Space Force. The move came as he honored the Artemis II crew, the astronauts slated for the next lunar mission.
And the ambition doesn't stop there. Earlier this month, Trump backed a policy targeting more than 1,000 annual space launches and re-entries by 2030, while actively promoting commercial lunar and Mars missions. The numbers show the momentum: U.S. orbital launches have skyrocketed from just 19 in 2013 to 178 in 2025.
So, is this a golden age or just golden rhetoric? Either way, the administration is betting big on space, and with Pence cheering from the sidelines, it's clear that space remains a bipartisan point of pride in the GOP's vision for American greatness.
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