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Trump Awards Congressional Space Medal of Honor to Artemis II Astronauts

9/2/2026

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President Donald Trump awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to four Artemis II astronauts.
The ceremony was at NASA’s Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston on Friday.
Trump arrived half an hour late and gave a rambling speech about his scientist uncle and Obama.
Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen were the first to leave low Earth orbit since Nixon.

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President Donald Trump awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to four Artemis II astronauts.
The ceremony was at NASA’s Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston on Friday.
Trump arrived half an hour late and gave a rambling speech about his scientist uncle and Obama.
Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen were the first to leave low Earth orbit since Nixon.