{"id":67399,"date":"2026-10-29T18:55:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T18:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/?guid=4a5b812997b9124e65a32a20edeae4c4"},"modified":"2026-10-29T18:55:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T18:55:22","slug":"see-nasas-artemis-iii-astronauts-meet-trump-at-the-white-house-as-they-train-for-a-critical-2027-moon-lander-test-flight-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2026\/10\/29\/see-nasas-artemis-iii-astronauts-meet-trump-at-the-white-house-as-they-train-for-a-critical-2027-moon-lander-test-flight-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"See NASA&#8217;s Artemis III astronauts meet Trump at the White House as they train for a critical 2027 moon lander test flight (photos)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n                            \n                            <article>\n                                <p>U.S. President Donald Trump just met another NASA Artemis crew.<\/p><p>The astronauts of NASA's <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/artemis-3-moon-landing-mission\"><u>Artemis III<\/u><\/a> mission visited the Oval Office on Thursday (Oct. 28) and posed for a few photos with the president.<\/p><p>Their visit came nearly six months to the day after that of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/artemis-2-humans-moon-orbit\"><u>Artemis II<\/u><\/a> crew, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/artemis\/trump-invited-the-artemis-2-moon-astronauts-to-the-oval-office-heres-what-happened\"><u>stopped by the White House on April 29<\/u><\/a>, 19 days after the end of their historic flight around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/55-earths-moon-formation-composition-and-orbit.html\"><u>the moon<\/u><\/a>. <\/p><figure class=\"van-image-figure  inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check=\"\" ><div class='image-full-width-wrapper'><div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:2560px;\"><p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img id=\"EBnSSf24cxuC4JnsGUDQeR\" name=\"HVvgrXLW4AA33_U\" alt=\"a man seating at a desk in a fancy room talks to one man in a dark suit and five male astronauts in blue flight jackets\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/EBnSSf24cxuC4JnsGUDQeR-1920-80.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline\" \/><\/p><\/div><\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"caption-text\">President Trump talks to the Artemis III crew on Oct. 28, 2026. <\/span><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: The White House)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><p>The Artemis III astronauts are NASA's Randy Bresnik (commander), Andre Douglas and Frank Rubio (mission specialists) and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/22562-european-space-agency.html\"><u>European Space Agency<\/u><\/a>'s Luca Parmitano (pilot). All four \u2014 plus backup crewmate Bob Hines of NASA, and agency chief <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/private-spaceflight\/who-is-jared-isaacman-trumps-pick-for-nasa-chief\"><u>Jared Isaacman<\/u><\/a> \u2014 made the White House trip.<\/p><p>\"It was a great day at the White House with President Trump and the talented crew of Artemis III,\" Isaacman <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NASAAdmin\/status\/2115539424859570514\" ><u>wrote via X on Thursday<\/u><\/a>.  <\/p><p>Artemis III will launch to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/low-earth-orbit\"><u>low Earth orbit<\/u><\/a> in the summer of 2027, if all goes according to plan. The roughly two-week-long mission will aim to dock NASA's Orion capsule with SpaceX's <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-starship-super-heavy.html\"><u>Starship<\/u><\/a> vehicle and\/or Blue Origin's <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/artemis\/when-will-spacex-and-blue-origin-fly-to-the-moon-nasa-reveals-lunar-lander-timelines-and-an-artemis-iii-update\"><u>Blue Moon<\/u><\/a>.<\/p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/NvwFJrlS.html\" id=\"NvwFJrlS\" title=\"SpaceX vs. Blue Origin: Race to Land NASA Astronauts on the Moon by 2028\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><p>NASA selected Starship and Blue Moon to be the crewed lunar landers for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/artemis-program.html\"><u>Artemis program<\/u><\/a>, so Artemis III <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/artemis\/nasa-lays-out-plan-for-artemis-3-moon-lander-test-flight-but-when-will-it-launch\"><u>will provide valuable practice<\/u><\/a>: On moon-landing missions, astronauts will launch aboard Orion and then meet up with either Starship or Blue Moon, which will carry them to the lunar surface and back up again.<\/p><p>That's slated to happen for the first time on Artemis IV, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/artemis\/nasa-wants-to-land-astronauts-on-the-moon-in-2028-will-spacexs-starship-or-blue-origins-blue-moon-lander-be-ready-in-time\"><u>NASA plans to launch in 2028<\/u><\/a>.<\/p><p>We don't yet know which private lander(s) will launch on Artemis III; NASA would like to fly both of them, but it's unclear if both will be ready when the time comes.<\/p><p>That uncertainty applies to Artemis IV as well. We'll have to wait a bit before we know which spacecraft will have the honor of putting astronauts down on the moon for the first time since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/17287-apollo-17-last-moon-landing.html\"><u>Apollo 17<\/u><\/a> in 1972.<\/p><div style=\"min-height: 250px;\">                                <div class=\"kwizly-quiz kwizly-eArZkW\"><\/div>                            <\/div>                            <script src=\"https:\/\/kwizly.com\/embed\/eArZkW.js\" async=\"\"><\/script>\n                                                            <\/article>\n                            \n                        ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The astronauts of NASA&#8217;s Artemis III mission met with President Trump at the White House on Wednesday (Oct. 28), just as the Artemis II spaceflyers did six months ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2861,2796,1263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artemis","category-missions","category-space-exploration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67400,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67399\/revisions\/67400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}