The astronauts joined president in Oval Office for a press conference, and it wasn’t long before he praised himself
Donald Trump hosted the crew of the historic Artemis II lunar flyby mission at the White House on Wednesday.
The four astronauts – commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen – joined the president in the Oval Office for a celebratory meeting and press conference.
“We’re very proud of these people. They have unbelievable courage, unbelievable a lot of other things too,” Trump said at the start of the conference, immediately segueing into praise for himself. “To get in there, you have to be very smart, have to do a lot of things physically good. So I would have had no trouble making it, I’m physically very, very good. Maybe a little bit of a problem. We’ll have to try it.”
The crew broke Apollo 13’s distance record for the farthest distance traveled from Earth during their mission earlier this month. They reached 252,756 miles (406,771km), surpassing the 1970 record of 248,655 miles.
