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Trump at Kennedy Space Center Announces a Major U.S. Air and Space Show and Lays Out Moon, Mars, and Supersonic Plans, Nov. 6, 2026

November 6, 2026 · The White House · 0:31:11

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What happened

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman introduced the President at Kennedy Space Center, crediting, as he stated it, the President’s executive order on American space superiority and the Artemis program, Space Force, and the Artemis Accords from the first term, and pledging a return of American astronauts to the Moon, an enduring lunar presence, and progress toward Mars, all as he stated it.

President Trump said the former shuttle landing facility will be transformed into a 1,900-acre venue for what he described as the biggest air show in the world within about two years, bringing, as he stated it, hundreds of thousands of visitors each year, billions of dollars in economic impact, and hundreds of billions of dollars in deals, with commercial aircraft companies including Boeing participating, as he stated it. He said the announcement answers decades in which, in his account, the major aerospace shows were held overseas in Paris, the United Kingdom, and Dubai.

The President also cited, as he stated them, a jobs report he described as blockbuster — 165,000 jobs added in October, including 19,000 manufacturing jobs — $22.2 trillion of investment secured in less than two years, and record personal incomes and a record-low poverty rate, all as he stated them. He repeated that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, as he stated it, and credited the B-2 strikes of a little more than a year earlier, as he stated it.

On the space program itself, the President said Artemis 2 had circled the Moon this year and traveled farther from Earth than anyone before, as he stated it; that Artemis 3 would fly next summer to test the next lunar landers; that the United States would return astronauts to the lunar surface before the end of his term and then establish a permanent presence; and that, as he stated it, he had issued an American Declaration of Freedom in space that week and NASA would launch the first nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars within two years. He also recapped, as he stated them, creating Space Force in his first term, signing an executive order for a U.S. Space Academy, repealing the prohibition on supersonic flight over the continental United States, and orders on drones, electric vertical takeoff aircraft, and what he called super intelligence, in which he said the United States leads China by about a year, as he stated it.

The President thanked, among others present as he named them, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, OMB Director Russell Vought, U.N. Ambassador Mike Waltz, and OSTP Director Michael Kratsios, and Isaacman presented him a plaque to be installed on the runway, as shown in the upload.

Why it matters

The remarks stake the administration’s space record in public: a permanent lunar presence, a nuclear-powered Mars spacecraft, supersonic flight restored, and a U.S.-hosted air and space show meant to take the industry’s showcase from Paris and Dubai — each now on the record with dates attached, alongside the economic figures the President cited to frame it.

Scoreboard watch

The President’s dated and checkable statements in these remarks include the October jobs figures he cited (165,000 jobs, including 19,000 manufacturing jobs), the $22.2 trillion investment figure, Artemis 3 flying next summer, a return of American astronauts to the lunar surface before the end of his term, and a first nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars within two years, all as he stated them. Flagged as scoreboard candidates for the editor; no verdict is published from this page.

Sources: The White House, “President Trump Delivers Remarks, Nov. 6, 2026”, 2026-11-06 (official upload, embedded above; published 2026-11-06). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.