President Donald Trump shared a message Wednesday ahead of the planned Artemis II mission around the moon, saying, “God bless our incredible Astronauts.”
Posting to Truth Social ahead of the Wednesday evening launch, the president praised the work of NASA and those who had worked to send a manned mission further than any before it.
President Trump said that “for the first time in over 50 YEARS, America is going back to the Moon!” ahead of the mission, which will not see a lunar landing, but a loop around the moon.
“Artemis II, among the most powerful rockets ever built, is launching our Brave Astronauts farther into Deep Space than any human has EVER gone,” Trump wrote. “We are WINNING, in Space, on Earth, and everywhere in between — Economically, Militarily, and now, BEYOND THE STARS. Nobody comes close! America doesn’t just compete, we DOMINATE, and the whole World is watching. God bless our incredible Astronauts, God bless NASA, and God bless the Greatest Nation ever to exist, the United States of America!”
The launch will be from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, at 5:24 p.m. ET.
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