Donald Trump praises Artemis astronauts: ‘You’ve made history’

The Hindu · 🇮🇳 public India · Apr 07, 2026 · 317 words · By AFP

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President Donald Trump on Monday (April 6, 2026) called and congratulated the Artemis astronauts circling the Moon for making “history,” telling them they’ve “made all America really proud, incredibly proud.” “You really are modern-day pioneers — all of you,”…

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Trump said, before launching into a friendly interview of sorts with the three Americans and one Canadian who are on a historic 10-day mission around Earth’s natural satellite.

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“You’ve got a lot of courage doing what you’re doing,” Mr.

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Claim 1: “Mr. Trump ended the call by inviting the astronauts to the White House.”

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Claim 2: “'I said a little prayer, but then I had to keep rolling,' Artemis pilot Victor Glover responded. 'I was actually recording scientific observations of the far side of the Moon.'”

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Claim 3: “You've got a lot of courage doing what you're doing,' Mr. Trump said, lavishing praise on NASA’s first lunar flyby in more than 50 years.”

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Artemis I, formerly Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1), was an uncrewed Moon-orbiting mission that launched on November 16, 2022. As the first major spaceflight of NASA's Artemis program, Artemis I marked t…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Artemis II is an ongoing United States spaceflight mission sending four astronauts on a flyby around the Moon. It launched from the Kennedy Space Center on April 1, 2026. The ten-day mission is crewed…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Artemis program is a Moon exploration program led by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), formally established in 2017 through Space Policy Directive 1. By 2028…
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Claim 4: “Mr. Trump... credited himself with choosing to save the space program.”

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Kai Madison Trump (born May 12, 2007) is an American social media personality. A member of the Trump family, she is the eldest child of Donald Trump Jr. and Vanessa Haydon and the eldest grandchild of…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In a press conference in December 2025, U.S. president Donald Trump announced a United States Navy guided-missile warship, to be called the Trump-class battleship. The class is also known as BBG(X) i…
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Claim 5: “The 79-year-old Republican added that he’d spoken to Canada’s leader and hockey legend Wayne Gretzky about the 'neighbor' country’s addition to the space mission.”

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Claim 6: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday (April 6, 2026) called and congratulated the Artemis astronauts circling the Moon for making 'history,' telling them they've 'made all America really proud, incredibly proud.'”

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Artemis III is planned to be the second crewed mission of the NASA-led Artemis lunar exploration program. The mission's objectives are to conduct tests in low Earth orbit with one or both commercially…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The space policy of the second Donald Trump administration is mainly based around the Golden Dome missile defense system, expanding the commercial spaceflight industry, and returning to the Moon.
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Claim 7: “Mr. Trump then conducted a brief question-and-answer session, asking what the dark side of the moon was like...”

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Claim 8: “Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen thanked Mr. Trump for American 'space leadership' and called the effort a 'mutually beneficial goal.'”

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