Trump to honor Artemis II crew with nation's top space medal

President Trump plans to award the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the crew of NASA’s Artemis II mission, CBS News reports. The presentation is scheduled for Friday, Aug. 28, at Johnson Space Center in Houston. Astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, became the first humans to travel around the moon in more than half a century during a 10-day mission that ended with a safe splashdown on April 10. Only 30 astronauts have received the medal, including Neil Armstrong and John Glenn. Apollo 1 fire and space shuttle disasters’ victims also received it posthumously.