This bill authorizes Congress to award a Congressional Gold Medal to each of the four crew members of the Artemis II mission in recognition of their achievements in human space exploration. The Artemis II mission made history as the first crewed lunar mission in 53 years, traveling 252,756 miles from Earth and returning the first high-definition lunar imagery captured by humans in over five decades. The crew includes Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen, with the bill also recognizing other notable contributors including Charlie Blackwell-Thompson, the first female launch director for a crewed deep-space mission. The legislation directs the Secretary of the Treasury to design and strike the gold medals, with authority to produce bronze duplicate medals for sale, with any sales revenue deposited back into the United States Mint Public Enterprise Fund to cover costs.
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