A ticker-tape parade down Broadway honoring the Artemis II crew may not be light-years away after all \u2014 provided NASA picks up the tab.<\/p>\n
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said this week that his administration is reviewing the feasibility of celebrating the heroic astronauts\u2019 feat of traveling farther into space than any other humans.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen it comes to the Artemis II ticker-tape parade, that is something we have brought back to [my City Hall] team and are looking into the logistics of what that will require,\u201d Mamdani told 1010 WINS, <\/a>when asked about City Council leaders\u2019 demand that NYC celebrate the crew\u2019s achievements.<\/a><\/p>\n NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani said this week his administration is reviewing the feasibility of celebrating the Artemis II crew\u2019s historic feat of traveling further in space than any other humans. Best Image \/ BACKGRID<\/p>\n But Mamdani strongly hinted he wants NASA to foot the bill.<\/p>\n \u201cI think typically ticker-tape parades have been funded by the organization or entity that\u2019s being celebrated, and that\u2019s part of what we\u2019re looking into right now,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n The city last held a ticker-tape parade in 2024 when it celebrated the New York Liberty\u2019s WNBA championship down the Canyon of Heroes, with the team picking up most of the cost.<\/p>\n Mamdani strongly hinted he wants NASA to foot some \u2014 or all \u2014 of the bill. ZUMAPRESS.com<\/p>\n It\u2019s unclear how much the Liberty parade cost, but a similar parade honoring the US women\u2019s national soccer team\u2019s World Cup championship cost $2 million<\/a> \u2014 with NYC taxpayers reportedly paying $1.5 million.<\/p>\n Speaker Julie Menin (D-Manhattan), Minority Leader David Carr (R-Staten Island), Deputy Speaker\u00a0Nantasha Williams (D-Queens) and Councilman Frank Morano (R-Staten Island) sent Mamdani an April 17 letter \u2014 first reported by The Post<\/a> \u2014 requesting he celebrate the space crew along downtown\u2019s Canyon of Heroes.<\/p>\n The last astronauts honored that way were the famed Apollo 11 moonshot crew in 1969.<\/p>\n More than four million people attended the August 13, 1969, parade in NYC honoring Apollo 11\u2019s crew, The New York Post then reported. NY Post<\/p>\n Apollo 11 astronauts wave from open car after City Hall ceremony in 1969. Left to right: Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong. In front of them in car are then-New York City\u2019s Mayor John Lindsay and then-United Nations Secretary General U Thant. HUM Images\/Universal Images Group via Getty Images<\/p>\n The socialist mayor \u2014 who has already\u00a0coldly banned the public\u00a0<\/a>from attending the Times Square ball drop celebrating America\u2019s 250th\u00a0birthday on July 4 \u2014 admitted to WNYC <\/a>that it was \u201cquite incredible\u201d watching the Artemis crew\u2019s journey from Earth.<\/p>\n \u201cI think it was a real invitation for people across the world to remember that we are part of something larger,\u201d said Mamdani. \u00a0<\/p>\n The NASA-led Artemis II mission earlier this month marked humankind\u2019s first crewed visit to the moon since 1972, and set a new distance record for manned space travel of 252,760 miles from Earth.\u00a0<\/p>\n NASA did not return messages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A ticker-tape parade down Broadway honoring the Artemis II crew may not be light-years away after all \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[263375,42141,45752,26188,121270,263376,5871,7042,179816,170499,111,79,193,194,10766],"class_list":{"0":"post-605783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-apollo-11","9":"tag-artemis-ii","10":"tag-buzz-aldrin","11":"tag-city-council","12":"tag-david-carr","13":"tag-julie-menin","14":"tag-metro","15":"tag-moon","16":"tag-neil-armstrong","17":"tag-parades","18":"tag-politics","19":"tag-science","20":"tag-space","21":"tag-us-news","22":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}