Astronauts on board NASA's Artemis II mission received a shoutout from President Donald Trump in a Monday, April 6 call during which the president told them they had "inspired the entire world" following their record-breaking flight around the moon.
"Very special hello to Artemis today," Trump said during the call. "You've made history and made all America really proud. We have a lot of things to be proud of lately, but this is there's nothing like what you're doing."
The Artemis II crew conducted their lunar flyby on Monday, April 6, traveling near the far side of the moon in a record-breaking moment, reaching a maximum distance of 252,756 miles from Earth and surpassing the Apollo 13 distance record set in 1970 by over 4,000 miles. They also became the first humans to see parts of the far side of the moon with the naked eye.
"Humans have really never seen anything quite like what you're doing in a man's spacecraft," Trump said in the call. "It's really special."
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