JACKSONVILLE, Onslow County \u2014 A Jacksonville native who made history in space will receive one of the nation\u2019s highest honors for astronauts Friday, Aug. 28.<\/p>\n
NASA astronaut Christina Koch and the rest of the Artemis II crew will receive the Congressional Space Medal of Honor during a ceremony at NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center in Houston.<\/p>\n
The ceremony is scheduled for 11 a.m. EDT Friday.<\/p>\n
Koch grew up in Jacksonville and attended White Oak High School before later graduating from N.C. State University.<\/p>\n
She joined NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman and Victor Glover and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen on the historic Artemis II mission earlier this year.<\/p>\n
The crew completed its 10-day mission around the moon on April 10.<\/p>\n
NASA said the astronauts became the first people in more than 50 years to travel beyond the moon and traveled farther into space than any humans before them.<\/p>\n
President Donald Trump is expected to present the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the crew during Friday\u2019s ceremony.<\/p>\n
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman is also expected to attend.<\/p>\n
The Congressional Space Medal of Honor recognizes astronauts for exceptionally meritorious efforts and contributions to the welfare of the nation and humanity.<\/p>\n
Friday\u2019s ceremony will be streamed live through NASA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Onslow County \u2014 A Jacksonville native who made history in space will receive one of the nation\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-383537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}