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

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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.