Mars next? Trump honours NASA's moon crew
President Donald Trump honored the Artemis II crew, the first astronauts to journey to the moon in over half a century, with the Congressional Space Medal of Honour on Friday, according to a report. The four-member crew, consisting of Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canada's Jeremy Hansen, broke the distance record by coming within 4,067 miles of the lunar surface.
They also piloted NASA's new Orion capsule and the maiden voyage of the 30-storey moon rocket from Kennedy Space Centre. The ceremony took place at Houston's Johnson Space Centre, where the astronauts presented Trump with a flight jacket, fulfilling a previous promise. Trump announced the establishment of a US Space Academy for NASA, the Space Force, and the commercial space community, expressing his ambition to land Americans on the moon before his term ends and to follow with a Mars mission shortly thereafter.
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