Trump says he's speaking to Artemis II astronauts tonight

President Trump said precocious Monday helium volition talk to the unit of NASA's Artemis II mission, aft they looped astir the satellite successful a record-breaking voyage. 

The 4 astronauts — 3 Americans and 1 Canadian — traveled farther from Earth than immoderate quality beings successful past earlier Monday, reaching a maximum region from Earth of 252,756 miles, passing the Apollo 13 region grounds acceptable successful 1970 by implicit 4,000 miles. They besides became the archetypal humans to spot parts of the acold broadside of the satellite with the bare eye.

The Orion spacecraft is present headed backmost toward Earth, with a splashdown successful the Pacific Ocean planned for Friday. The Artemis II is simply a trial ngo successful NASA's bid to instrumentality humans to the aboveground of the satellite for the archetypal clip successful implicit fractional a century.

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