Overview
- NASA announced on Aug. 21 that President Trump will present the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to Artemis II crewmembers at a Houston ceremony scheduled for Aug. 28.
- NASA lists the ceremony as taking place at Johnson Space Center with an 11 a.m. EDT start and says the event will stream live and offer limited media credentials.
- The named recipients are NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, and NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman will join the president and crew.
- Some local outlets and a White House official reported a 10 a.m. start time and gave Joint Reserve Base Ellington as an alternate venue, a discrepancy that remains unresolved in coverage.
- Artemis II completed a roughly 10-day lunar flyby on April 10 that sent humans farther from Earth than any previous mission, and the Congressional Space Medal of Honor is a rare, presidentially presented award with about 30 prior recipients.