President Donald Trump hosted the astronauts of Artemis II at the White House on Wednesday, just weeks after the crew members circled the moon in a generational voyage.
Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen joined Trump in the Oval Office before members of the press in the afternoon.
“We have some people that have captivated the attention of the whole world, not just our country, the whole world, and they’re very brave, and that was a lot of rocket under them,” Trump said. “I never saw anything like that.”
“I don’t know how they do it. I wouldn’t want to do it. But it takes people like this to make our country great,” he added, emphasizing that everyone he knows “wanted to see the launch and they especially wanted to see a successful landing.”
Trump jokingly asked NASA Administrator Jared
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