Artemis II Crew Awarded the U.S.'s Highest Space Honor

Artemis II commanders Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian Jeremy Hansen were awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor by President Donald Trump at NASA's Johnson Space Center for their April lunar flyby aboard Orion, the first Moon mission of its kind in decades and a precursor to Artemis III/IV; the ceremony also touched on a proposed US space academy and timelines for future lunar exploration amid calls to return to the Moon before the next administration.