President Donald J. Trump will present the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to all four members of NASA’s Artemis II crew during a ceremony at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
The event is scheduled for 11 a.m. EDT on Friday, August 28. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman will join the President and the four astronauts for the ceremony.
Artemis II Crew Made Spaceflight History
NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, completed their historic 10-day journey around the Moon on April 10.
The mission marked the first time astronauts had flown aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft. As a major test flight for the Artemis program, it also carried humans beyond the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years.
The crew went even farther. During the mission, Wiseman, Glover, Koch, and Hansen traveled farther into space than any humans in history, setting a new milestone for human space exploration.
A Congressional Honor for the Artemis II Astronauts
Trump will recognize each of the four crew members with the Congressional Space Medal of Honor during the Houston ceremony. The awards come after a mission that tested Orion with astronauts aboard while sending humans deeper into space than ever before.
Isaacman will take part in the ceremony alongside Trump and the Artemis II astronauts at Johnson Space Center.
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Another photo opportunity for POTUS Trump. Sorry to be cynical, but hanging around in spacecraft is rather passe these days. 10-day trip round the backside of the moon in a machine built according to close to 60 years of experience so as to maximise safety of the crew? The medals of honour should go to those people of any nation who spend several months in that stationery space-station (Skylab or whatever it is called) floating between Earth and Moon. Their long-term risk is greater and no doubt the training equally arduous to those who fly round the Moon in 10 days.
A true leader. MAGA!
I have the utmost respect for the astronauts , If standing there gets’ them their paychecks then all they are doing is fostering an ego , after all trump has done to the sciences ( need I explain ) that’s all I see in this story . The quest will expand and the space between the earth and the astronauts will increase .