Artemis II astronauts receive nation's highest space honor for their successful moonshot

Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen received the Congressional Space Medal of Honor The Artemis II astronauts who flew around the moon in April received the US’s highest space honor on Friday. Donald Trump presented the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the three Americans and one Canadian

President Trump has taken a monumental step by signing an order to create America's inaugural space academy, designed to elevate the nation's future leaders in space exploration. In a momentous interaction, he engaged with astronauts on the International Space Station. This initiative follows prior plans for lunar miss

President Donald Trump presented Congressional Space Medals of Honor on Friday to the Artemis II astronauts, who successfully journeyed around the moon in April.

President Donald Trump on Friday bestowed the Congressional Space Medal of Honor on the Artemis II crew during a ceremony at Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Trump, who was nearly half an hour late to the Texas ceremony, also wound up in the awkward position of presenting the first medal to a Canadian astronaut, Jeremy Hansen, amid a raging tariff war with the US’s northern neighbors

Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen is set to visit Houston with his Artemis II crewmates to receive the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.

President Trump presented the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the Artemis II crew, which took a journey around the moon.

President Trump awarded NASA’s Artemis II crew with the Congressional Space Medal of Honor on Friday during a visit to Johnson Space Center in Houston. U.S. astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Canadian Jeremy Hansen all received the honor four months after their historic mission in which the cre

The Artemis II astronauts who flew around the moon earlier this year have received the nation's highest space honor

Artemis II astronauts receive nation’s highest space honor for their successful moonshot  AP News

President Trump awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the crew of Artemis II and announced the creation of a U.S. Space Academy on Friday. CBS News' Bill Harwood and Ed O'Keefe have more.

WASHINGTON— President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday to start the process of creating a United States Space Academy and awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the four members of the Artemis II crew The order established a Presidential Commission on the United States Space Academy, which wi

The Artemis II crew completed a historic 10-day mission around the moon on April 10, becoming the first humans to travel beyond the moon in more than 50 years.