Trump calls NASA astronauts in space on first all-female spacewalk
CNNWashington CNN — President Donald Trump on Friday video conferenced two NASA astronauts in space to congratulate them as they completed the first all-female spacewalk in history. Trump praised the astronauts, Christa Koch and Jessica Meir, for their “historic” feat and hailed the women as “brave, brilliant women … who represent our country so well.” The phone call began with laughter after a delay in response from the astronauts in space. “Women and girls around the world are seeing some of their earliest dreams realized today with this historic all-women spacewalk,” Ivanka Trump said in a statement following the call. Trump added to the women that their mission is only “the first step because we’re going to the moon and then we’re going to mars.” Earlier this year Trump announced he was adding $1.6 billion to NASA’s budget “so that we can return to Space in a BIG WAY!” announcing in a tweet from May, “under my Administration, we are restoring @NASA to greatness and we are going back to the Moon, then Mars.”
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