NewzPresident Trump awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the four-person Artemis II crew on Friday during a visit to the Johnson Space Center in Houston. The recipients included U.S. astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, and Victor Glover, along with Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, who received the high distinction four months following their historic space mission.
During the Houston stop, Trump also signed an executive order calling for the creation of a new Space Academy. He praised the astronauts as heroes to a new generation of space explorers, framing the proposed academy as a training ground for future participants in space exploration.
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