Donald Trump praises Artemis astronauts: ‘You’ve made history’
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“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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— 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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— 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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— 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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“Mr. Trump... credited himself with choosing to save the space program.”
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— 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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— 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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— 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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“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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— 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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— 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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— 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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“Mr. Trump then conducted a brief question-and-answer session, asking what the dark side of the moon was like...”
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“'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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“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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“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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“Mr. Trump ended the call by inviting the astronauts to the White House.”
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