The Artemis II crew just had a call with President Donald Trump from above the moon, and let’s just say it delivered a truly meme-worthy moment for the ages. After setting a record for the farthest-traveled humans from Earth, the astronauts found themselves in an intermittently uncomfortable 12-minute Earth-to-space call on Monday night, which notably included a whole minute of awkward silence after Trump went on about his Canadian connections.
The crew consisted of Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen. Wiseman, Glover, and Koch are all NASA astronauts, while Jeremy Hansen is from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). The four astronauts, who had been working incredibly hard for days, responded to Trump’s comments with polite smiles and silence.
