Former Vice President Mike Pence praised President Donald Trump’s space agenda, calling it a continuation of efforts to strengthen American leadership in space through Artemis, commercial spaceflight and the U.S. Space Force.
Pence Credits Trump’s Space Agenda
On Saturday, Pence made the comments on X while sharing a clip of Trump speaking at a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) event.
“President @realDonaldTrump should be commended for reviving and sustaining American Leadership in Space,” the former Vice President wrote.
He said the administration “returned American Astronauts to Space on American rockets, launched Artemis to Go Back to the Moon and Created the U.S. Space Force.”
He added that the Trump administration “continues the quest to carry American Ideals and Leadership into Space,” before concluding, “Well Done Mr. President.”
Trump Declares ‘Golden Age’ For Space
In the shared clip, Trump declared that his administration had brought America’s space program into a new era.
“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 also vowed that the U.S. would dominate the next phase of space exploration.
“Our nation will conquer and we will conquer indeed this vast frontier that we have before us,” Trump said.
He added, “We will explore it, we will tame it and we will win it. We will always win.”
Trump Expands US Space Push
On Friday, Trump signed an executive order to revive a U.S. Space Academy to train astronauts, engineers and scientists and address workforce shortages at NASA and the Space Force.
The move came as he honored the Artemis II crew.
Earlier this month, Trump also backed a policy targeting more than 1,000 annual space launches and re-entries by 2030, while promoting commercial lunar and Mars missions. U.S. orbital launches rose from 19 in 2013 to 178 in 2025.
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