Space stocks soared during Tuesday’s trading session, 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.

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

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

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

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

"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.

Wall Street banks are hoping this is the week when they can start to recover more from the bad bets they made on Elon Musk’s 2022 Twitter buyout.

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.

President Donald Trump promised he would “pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts who plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars”