NASA Admin Jared Isaacman Thanks President for His Support of Space Exploration - 11/06/26

Good evening, everyone. Mr. President, welcome to Kennedy Space Center. Welcome to Max Power. It is an absolute honor to serve under a president whose vision is igniting a golden age of exploration and energizing the most accomplished space agency in the world. As America celebrates our 250th birthday, we gather at a place where so many of our greatest ambitions have taken flight, from Mercury and America's first astronaut, Alan Shepard ...through Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin of Apollo to over 135... shuttle missions, the great telescopes of Hubble, Webb, the rovers on Mars, to today, where your executive order on ensuring American space superiority has given us missions like Roman, Artemis II, and soon Artemis III and Artemis IV. Mr. President, you have given NASA a clear mandate to move with urgency, restore the fire, passion, and greatness that made this agency the envy of the world, and lay the groundwork for another 250 years of American technological breakthroughs, discovery, and inspiration in air and space. We are building on what you ignited during your first term through the Artemis program, through Space Force, through the Artemis Accords, and a commitment to keeping the United States at the forefront of this great adventure, challenging NASA, our military, and American industry to think bigger, move faster, and pursue the kind of bold endeavors worthy of the United States of America. And to showcase that ingenuity as you see it today, as it will become, The greatest exhibition of American aerospace capabilities, not at the Paris Air Show, not at Farnborough, but here at Kennedy Space Center, next to this historic runway. This historic runway that President Trump brought back to life, your leadership has energized NASA, energized the industry gathered here today, and sir, we are not slowing down. We will return American astronauts to the moon. We will build an enduring presence on the lunar surface, a moon base. We will unleash the drones, next generation transportation taking us quietly through the sound barrier. We're rebuilding our X-plane fleet. We are finally getting America underway on nuclear power in space. And we are going to venture farther into the solar system and move closer to that next giant leap you called for in your inaugural address when American astronauts plant the stars and stripes on Mars. Mr. President, thank you for setting an ambitious course for America, for NASA, for believing this country should continue to undertake and achieve the near impossible. And for reminding us that great nations do great things. Ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor, my privilege, to welcome the 45th and 47th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.