NASA’s Artemis II moon astronauts will be part of a really unique membership subsequent week.
President Donald Trump will award these spaceflyers the Congressional Area Medal of Honor subsequent Friday (Aug. 28) at Johnson Space Center in Houston to acknowledge their historic journey round the moon this previous April.
The ceremony will start at 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT) and can function NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, President Trump and the Artemis II astronauts. You’ll watch it reside when the time comes.
Artemis II despatched NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, in addition to the Canadian Area Company’s Jeremy Hansen, on a 10-day journey round Earth’s nearest neighbor. It was the primary crewed voyage past low Earth orbit since 1972, when the Apollo 17 astronauts returned house from the moon.
The mission’s success was an enormous step for NASA’s Artemis program, which goals to establish a base near the lunar south pole within the coming years.
The Congressional Area Medal of Honor is the best award that the U.S. authorities can bestow upon an astronaut. It is doable that solely Wiseman, Glover and Koch will obtain it subsequent week; NASA’s media advisory concerning the occasion states that Trump will give the medal to “every of NASA’s Artemis II crew members,” suggesting that Hansen may not be included.
Thirty folks have obtained the Congressional Area Medal of Honor so far. They’re:
- Neil A. Armstrong
- Frank Borman
- Charles “Pete” Conrad, Jr.
- John H. Glenn, Jr.
- Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom
- Alan B. Shepard
- John W. Younger
- Thomas P. Stafford
- James A. Lovell
- Shannon W. Lucid
- Roger B. Chaffee
- Edward H. White, II
- William M. Shepherd
- Rick D. Husband
- William C. McCool
- Michael P. Anderson
- Kalpana Chawla
- David M. Brown
- Laurel B. Clark
- Ilan Ramon
- Francis R. (Dick) Scobee
- Michael J. Smith
- Judith A. Resnik
- Ronald E. McNair
- Ellison S. Onizuka
- Gregory B. Jarvis
- Sharon Christa McAuliffe
- Robert L. Crippen
- Douglas G. Hurley
- Robert L. Behnken
