Donald Trump's campaign team pulls ad featuring NASA astronauts after backlash

US President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign pulled a video featuring historic Dragon Crew launch after backlash from astronauts and NASA officials. Trump has been trying to project success of NASA and X as an achievement of his ministration and latest video appeared to be in violation of ncy’s policy.

vertisement video posted on YouTube reportedly showed foot of Apollo program, and Demo-2 mission, which resurrected human flight capability of United States. NASA prohibits use of any of NASA identities and emblem imry in vertisements. NASA’s vertising regulations say that ncy will t promote or endorse or appear to promote or endorse a commercial product, service or activity.

"Astronauts or employees who are currently employed by NASA cant have ir names, likenesses or or personality traits displayed in any vertisements or marketing material," regulations re.

Retired NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg, wife of Doug Hurley who flew in Dragon Crew craft along with Bob Behnken, raised strong objection to used of her photograph in vertisement. Taking to Twitter, Nyberg said that she finds it “disturbing” that video im was used without her consent. 

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Online petition

A Change.org petition was initiated to stop Trump from politicising accomplishments of X and NASA and has attracted nearly 7,000 signatures so far. petition argued that NASA Commercial Crew Program has been around in its current form since Obama ministration, and its roots go back to Bush ministration. 

It said that NASA and industry as a whole have long tried to stay out of politics, and, until this ministration, that goal was at least partially attained. petition furr ded that implying any one person was responsible for X-NASA Crew Demo-2 launch is an “insult to work of teams” that meaningfully contributed to its success.

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