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Trump honors Artemis II crew with Congressional Space Medal of Honor and orders NASA-led U.S. Space Academy

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President Donald Trump honored the Artemis II astronauts—the first humans to travel beyond the Moon in more than 50 years—with the Congressional Space Medal of Honor and signed an executive order directing NASA to establish the nation’s first U.S. Space Academy at Johnson Space Center in Houston.

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  • The executive order expands NASA’s role in training astronauts, engineers, scientists and military personnel, with the proposed academy intended to support the agency, Space Force and commercial space sector; it follows the administration’s earlier direction to establish a U.S. Space Academy.
  • The Artemis II crew’s recognition underscores the mission’s significance as the first crewed voyage beyond the Moon in more than five decades, reinforcing the program’s prominence in U.S. human-spaceflight policy.

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