Trump Speaks to NASA Astronauts During the First All-Women Spacewalk

Trump Speaks to NASA Astronauts During the First All-Women Spacewalk
President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and Ivanka Trump listen during a conference call with the International Space Station in Washington, on Oct. 18, 2019. Win McNamee/Getty Images
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President Donald Trump spoke to two NASA astronauts via video conference on Oct. 18 to praise them for their work and congratulate them for participating in the first all-women spacewalk.

Trump praised Christa Koch and Jessica Meir, members of NASA’s 2013 astronaut class, as “brave, brilliant women” during the call at the White House while the two astronauts were replacing a an exterior part of the International Space Station.