The president praised the astronauts and highlighted the historic record for the travel distance achieved by the mission.
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The President of the United States, Donald Trump, received this Wednesday at the White House the astronauts of NASA's Artemis II mission, at a meeting in which he highlighted the success of the space program and the country's return to lunar orbit after more than half century.
From the Oval Office, the president congratulated the crew for having starred in the first mission to reach the orbit of the Moon in decades, also becoming the humans who have traveled the farthest from Earth.
During the meeting, Trump also praised the work of the space agency and its leadership, including administrator Jared Isaacman.
“People like this are needed to make our country great...”, said the president, recognizing the team's performance.
Trump and the astronauts.
The Artemis II mission consisted of astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch and Victor Glover, from NASA, together with Jeremy Hansen, from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). The crew managed to reach a distance of 406,771 kilometers from Earth, exceeding the record set by the Apollo 13 mission
in 1970.
The president highlighted the physical and mental demands involved in this type of mission and, in a relaxed tone, joked about the possibility of participating in a space expedition. “I wouldn't have had any problem getting it...”, he ironized during
the meeting.
The Artemis program is part of NASA's strategy to resume lunar exploration, with new missions scheduled for 2028 and the possible construction of a base on the satellite's surface.
President Donald Trump.
In another part of the meeting, Trump announced that his administration will declassify information related to unidentified phenomena. “They want to know about UFOs... we're going to be publishing a lot of things that we have. Some of them are going to be very interesting for people,” he said.
The visit also left a relaxed exchange between the president and the space agency's authorities. Amid the recognition of astronauts, Trump once again joked about the possibility of traveling to space:
“We are very proud. They have incredible courage... Is a president allowed to go on one of these missions?! ”. Faced with this, the director of NASA replied: “We can work on that, Mr. President.”
The meeting at the White House took place within the framework of a renewed impetus to the American space program, which repositioned itself in lunar exploration with long-term objectives and new technological goals.
