The president presented medals to the Artemis II crew at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston on Friday.
"You're floating, and your body, all these little aches and pains, and everything heal up, and you feel like you're 30 years old again," the 70-year-old veteran astronaut said.
As NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams return to Earth after an unplanned nine months in space, here's how they spent their time.
"The Space Race" chronicles the quest to integrate NASA's space program in orbit -- in the midst of racial injustice back on Earth. It premieres Feb. 12 on NatGeo and the next day on Hulu and Disney+.
Over 4,000 people applied to the experiment called Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog but, only 4 were selected to see how humans would fare during extended space travel.
The team, set to go around the moon, will include the first woman and first person of color on a moon mission.
