- The president invited the Artemis II astronauts to the Oval Office on Wednesday and delivered remarks to honor the NASA crew that traveled to the Moon for the first time since the Nixon administration.
- “We’re very proud of these people. Unbelievable courage,” Trump said. “A lot of other things too, by the way, to get in there you have to be very smart, have to do a lot of things physically good, so I would have no trouble making it. We will have to try it sometime.”
- “Is a president allowed to go up in one of these missions?” Trump asked NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman. “We can get working on that, Mr. President,” he responded.
- NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman and the Canadian Space Agency’s Jeremy Hansen looked on from behind the Resolute desk. The astronauts remained expressionless as Trump answered the various political questions put to him.
- Koch and Glover became the first woman and first Black man to reach the moon during their 10-day journey.
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