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 Donald Trump honors the crew of NASA's Artemis II with the Congressional Medal of Honor.
President Trump on Friday award the Artemis II crew the Congressional Space Medal of Honor at the Johnson Space Center.
The school will serve the Space Force, the sixth and newest branch of the military President Donald Trump created during his first term, as well as NASA and the growing civilian spaceflight industry.
Watch lives as President Trump awards each of NASA's Artemis II crew members the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
Watch: President Donald Trump awards NASA’s Artemis II crew the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
The first Congressional Space Medal of Honor was given to Neil A. Armstrong in 1978.
11AM ET: President Trump delivers remarks at the Artemis II Congressional Space Medal of Honor Ceremony at the NASA headquarters in Houston, Texas.
A new space transportation policy from the Trump administration calls for a dramatic increase in launches, as well as working with the commercial space industry to send humans to Mars.
NASA has released before-and-after images showing the crater a discarded SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage carved into the lunar surface after slamming into the Moon at 5,400 mph, raising fresh concerns about space debris as crewed missions approach. The school-bus-sized upper stage hit the Moon on August 5, striking with the force of three tonnes […] The post NASA photos reveal 60-foot crater where SpaceX rocket stage struck the Moon appeared first on American Almanac .
NASA has released before-and-after images showing the crater a discarded SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage carved into the lunar surface after slamming into the Moon at 5,400 mph, raising fresh concerns about space debris as crewed missions approach. The school-bus-sized upper stage hit the Moon on August 5, striking with the force of three tonnes of TNT. One week later, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the aftermath from roughly 60 miles above the surface: a crater approximately 60 feet wide and less than 10 feet deep, ringed by dark and bright streaks fanning outward in a butterfly-wing pattern. NASA released the photos on Tuesday, offering the clearest look yet at what happens when human hardware collides with the Moon at high…Open