Donald Trump has claimed credit for the Artemis mission, which saw four astronauts fly to the Moon and back in over 50 years. He also said in an interview that NASA was closed in 2017. He has once again lied through his teeth.
Donald Trump recently said several things about NASA and its Artemis mission. However, as he has done in the past, he passed some wrong information to the media, which was easily verifiable. On Wednesday, Trump talked to Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo and made a bunch of claims. Some of them were about the space agency that recently tasted success on the second stage of the Artemis moon mission. Here is what Trump said.
Trump said that he "started the Artemis program during his first presidency." This is not true. The Artemis program was being developed years before Trump ever entered the picture. The preparation for the Artemis mission started during the presidency of Barack Obama. On October 11, 2010, he signed the NASA Authorization Act of 2010, which talked about the immediate development of the SLS rocket and the Orion spacecraft. The Artemis II mission utilised both these components to send four humans to the Moon.
The act transitioned from the Constellation Program to a new deep-space exploration framework. While it cancelled the Constellation Program (Ares I and Ares V rockets),...
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