"Together, they took on one of the most challenging missions in human spaceflight and helped return America to the lunar environment."
While presenting the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the Artemis II crew, President Trump acknowledged the crew naming a lunar crater in honor of an astronaut’s late wife. Trump said he wished they would name something like that after him.
President Trump will honor the four-person Artemis II crew Friday at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, months after the astronauts completed the first crewed mission around the moon in more than 50 years. The mission, which took the crew further into space than ever before, was a major step in the Trump administration's push to return astronauts to the lunar surface by 2028. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, along with Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, will receive the Congressional Space Medal of Honor during the ceremony. Trump is also set to call the astronauts aboard the International Space Station. #trump #nasa #artemis2
NASA is already preparing for Artemis III, its next crewed mission to the moon, expected to launch in mid-2027. On Monday, the largest section of the Space Launch System rocket was rolled out. It's the only rocket capable of sending the Orion spacecraft, astronauts and supplies to the moon in one launch, NASA says. More: https://tinyurl.com/yrzv8538 #NASA #ArtemisIII #lunarmission
Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch shared a joyful reunion with her dog, Sadie, after returning to Earth following a record-setting deep-space mission.
The USS John P. Murtha returned to Naval Base San Diego after successfully retrieving the Orion spacecraft from NASA's Artemis II mission, marking a major milestone in human space exploration.
The Orion crew module containing the four Artemis II astronauts splashed down in the Pacific Ocean Friday evening.
Watch live as the crew aboard the Orion spacecraft splashes back down to Earth after a more than weeklong mission around the moon. MORE: https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/watch-artemis-ii-splashdown/
The Artemis II crew will give remarks from the Orion spacecraft on Thursday evening, just days after the four astronauts traveled further into space than anyone before them. The crew — Cmdr. Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency mission specialist Jeremy Hansen — embarked on the 10-day lunar flyby mission on April 1. The group, now on the way back to Earth, is expected to splashdown in San Diego on Friday. President Trump called the crew earlier this week to congratulate them on the mission. The conversation came after the astronauts viewed and recorded observations from the far side of the moon, a previously unseen surface. "Everybody’s talking about this, and I look…
NASA officials will provide an update on the Artemis II mission Tuesday afternoon, as the crew is expected to return on Friday. The 10-day mission, launched last Wednesday, marked the first crewed test flight to travel toward the moon in more than five decades. On Monday, the crew aboard the Orion spacecraft traveled farther from the Earth than any other mission in history. President Trump called the astronauts — commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specialist Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen — on Monday evening to congratulate them on the mission. He invited them to the White House upon their return and suggested he would ask for their autographs.