Trump Campaign Pulls Space Launch Ad That Violated NASA Rules
- Federal agency doesn’t allow the likeness of its astronauts
- Space-station voyage was milestone for Obama-era program
The SpaceX Falcon 9 as it launches from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in this false color infrared exposure on May 30.
Photographer: Bill Ingalls/NASA via Getty Images
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President Donald Trump’s campaign removed a video that violated National Aeronautics and Space Administration ad guidelines by featuring the federal agency’s astronauts.
The video, which opens with President John F. Kennedy’s 1962 speech declaring that America would go to the moon, flashed several recent images of NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley. The agency doesn’t allow the astronauts it employs to have their likenesses displayed in advertisements or marketing materials.