Trump Awards Artemis II Medals
Trump honored Artemis II astronauts with space medals and announced a new Space Academy.
August 28, 2026 · Updated Aug 28, 6:33pm ET
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What happened
President Donald Trump presented the Congressional Space Medal of Honor on Friday to the Artemis II crew at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston after their crewed lunar flyby in April. The recipients were NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman
Reid WisemanAmerican astronaut, Victor Glover
Victor GloverAmerican astronaut (born 1976) and Christina Koch
Christina KochAmerican astronaut (born 1979), and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen
Jeremy HansenCanadian astronaut (born 1976), the first non-NASA astronaut to receive the award. Trump also signed an executive order starting the creation of a U.S. Space Academy, establishing a presidential commission chaired by the NASA administrator to advise on the plan.
