News

Trump campaign removes space video after complaints

By Caitlin Yilek
Published June 5, 2020 2:01pm ET
Add Washington Examiner on Google
Trump campaign removes space video after complaints
The Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz MS-10 space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018. The Russian rocket carries U.S. astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin. Two astronauts from the U.S. and Russia are making an emergency landing after a Russian booster rocket carrying them into orbit to the International Space Station has failed after launch. | (Dmitri Lovetsky/AP)

President Trump’s reelection campaign yanked a video from YouTube after complaints that it was politicizing NASA.

The video, released Wednesday, included shots of two NASA astronauts, Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley, who traveled to space on Saturday aboard a SpaceX capsule.

Already a print subscriber? Click here to login/register your account

Trusted reporting.Unlimited access.

Subscribe for full access to Washington Examiner coverage, expert political analysis, and subscriber-only journalism.

Get Unlimited Access

Already a member? Log in

Cancel anytime.

Tag:

2020 Elections Donald Trump NASA