In the long arc of human reaching — from first flight to first Moon landing to the silence that followed — four astronauts have now extended that arc farther than any person before them. On August 28th in Houston, President Trump will present the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen, the crew of Artemis II, who in April traveled beyond the Moon aboard the Orion spacecraft for the first time in over fifty years. The ceremony is both a recognition of individual courage and a signal that humanity's ambition to move deeper into the co