CBS News
US television broadcaster; first to report Trump's call to the Artemis II crew on 6 April 2026.
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Which outlet first reported Trump's call to the Artemis II crew?
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Iran Conflict 2026- Did Trump call the Artemis II crew?
- CBS News reported that President Trump placed a call to the crew on 6 April 2026, the day they set the human distance record at 252,757 miles from Earth.Source: CBS News
- What is CBS News?
- CBS News is the news division of CBS, a US broadcast television network. Founded in 1941, it operates cbsnews.com and CBS News 24/7, a streaming channel. It is owned by Paramount Global.Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/about/
- How does CBS News cover the Artemis II mission?
- CBS News has embedded correspondents following the Artemis II crew and was among the first outlets to report the distance record of 252,757 miles on 6 April 2026, including President Trump's congratulatory call to the crew.Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/
Background
CBS News reported on 6 April 2026 that President Donald Trump placed a telephone call to the Artemis II crew during the Day 6 lunar flyby — the day the crew set the human distance record at 252,757 miles from Earth. CBS News was the primary citation for this call in contemporaneous reporting. The call was not confirmed in any NASA official press release at the time of publication.
CBS News was founded in 1927 and is one of the three original American broadcast television networks, operating as a division of Paramount Global. Its Washington bureau has long covered NASA and space policy; it held pool camera rights for several Apollo-era broadcasts and has maintained a dedicated space correspondent since the shuttle era.
In the context of Artemis II, CBS News served primarily as a source rather than a participant. Its reporting on the Trump call illustrated the gap between White House communications and NASA's own press office, which issued no formal confirmation of the presidential contact during the mission's highest-profile day.
