Trump honors Artemis II astronauts with Congressional Space Medal of Honor

In the United States, President Donald Trump will honor four astronauts from NASA's Artemis II mission with the Congressional Space Medal of Honor on August 28, 2026. The astronauts, Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen, made history by traveling farther from Earth than any humans before them during their mission around the Moon earlier this year.