В Канаде напомнили Трампу, что первооткрывателем Луны был СССР

Астроном Стук посоветовал Белому дому подучить историю космических открытий

Евгений Черненко07-09-2026 19:21

© Фото: Владимир Сергеев, РИА Новости

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Американские астронавты не были первыми, кто ступил на лунную поверхность. Такое заявление сделал Филип Стук, заслуженный профессор канадского Института исследований Земли и космоса. Учёный прокомментировал в разговоре с РИА Новости недавнее скандальное высказывание Дональда Трампа о том, что Луна якобы является территорией США благодаря первой высадке их экспедиции.

Стук подчеркнул, что Штаты не владеют Луной и не являются первой страной, чей аппарат достиг её поверхности. Астроном напомнил, что эта заслуга принадлежит России, поскольку именно советская станция «Луна-2» в сентябре 1959 года первой коснулась нашего естественного спутника.

«США не владеют Луной. Они не первая нация, которая отправила на Луну космический аппарат. Не первая нация, чей аппарат достиг поверхности Луны. Нация, которой принадлежат эти достижения, не выдвигает таких претензий, признавая, как это делают все космические державы, что Луна никому не принадлежит», - сказал Стук.

Ранее снимки 18-метрового кратера на Луне опубликовало Национальное управление США по аэронавтике и исследованию космического пространства (NASA). Он появился в результате падения ступени ракеты SpaceX Falcon 9, произошедшего в январе 2025 года.

А весной американское космическое агентство NASA объявило о планах создания лунной базы. Ее строительство начнется в 2029 году. NASA начало закупку посадочных модулей, вездеходов и беспилотников для этой миссии.

 

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Trump shares map that renames New Mexico as ‘New America’

ByPiper Hudspeth Blackburn

16 hr ago

The map posted by Donald Trump on Truth Social that renames New Mexico as ‘New America’.

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President Donald Trump on Sunday appeared to suggest that New Mexico should be called “New America,” posting a photo of the state with the new name days after he signed an executive order to change Lake Ontario to “Lake America.”

The image posted on Truth Social, which was reshared by the White House on X, shows the outline of the state with the word “Mexico” crossed out in red and replaced with “America.” There was no explanation shared alongside the image. The White House has not announced an effort to rename New Mexico. CNN has reached out for more details.

While Trump has the power to rename what geographic landmarks, such as bodies of water, are called in the Geographic Names Information System, he doesn’t have the constitutional ability to legally rename states — that process would need to happen within the state.

In addition to the renaming of Lake Ontario in the system late last month, Trump also used an executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America in January 2025, on his first day back in office.

In response to the post, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, accused Trump of trying to distract Americans, insisting that “New Mexico’s name isn’t up for debate.”

“While the President tries to distract Americans from his disastrous war in Iran, gas prices keep soaring,” she said Sunday on X. “While the White House wastes time coloring on maps, Nuevo México is busy doing the work.”

Democratic Sen. Martin Heinrich also pushed back on Trump’s post. “Three things I will always call by their actual names,” he said on X. “The Gulf of Mexico. Lake Ontario. New Mexico.”

The state’s name predates the founding of the United States back to the 16th century, according to a fact sheet on the origin of state names from the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Trump has frequently touted his desire to rename landmarks in a show of his presidential power. His move to rename Lake Ontario has come in the midst of tense trade war with Canada.

Shortly after signing that executive order, he also teased potential plans to change the name of one of the oceans on either side of the United States.

“We have a gulf and we have a lake. Now, all we need is an ocean. So, maybe we’ll have to change the name of the Atlantic and/or the Pacific. Maybe we’ll change them both,” he said.

 

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Democrats shocked after 2 members cross aisle to help Republicans

BySarah Ferris,Morgan Rimmer

Updated Sep 2, 2026

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson talks to reporters after the chamber passed a federal funding stopgap measure at the US Capitol on Tuesday.

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Speaker Mike Johnson nearly lost control of the House floor — again — because of a group of disgruntled conservatives.

Then a pair of Democrats stepped in to help.

Two centrist Democrats, Reps. Jared Golden of Maine and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington, took the unusual step Tuesday of rescuing GOP leaders’ own agenda in the face of a conservative rebellion.

Those Democrats backed a key GOP procedural vote that needed to succeed for Republicans to later bring several bills to the floor.

The reason? It helped pave the way for a priority bill for Golden supporting lobstermen, according to two people familiar with the discussion. The bill already has White House support, and Golden and others hope it can become law this year.

But their vote also allowed Johnson to proceed with messaging votes that Democrats oppose, including a resolution to condemn socialism that Republicans hope to use against Democrats on the campaign trail.

The defection of those two Democrats quickly enraged members of their own party — including some party leaders, who were shocked by the two members’ votes, several people told CNN.

Asked whether he’s disappointed in those members, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told reporters: “The two Democrats who voted for the rule did not give any member of House Democratic leadership a heads-up, and as a result, blindsided the entire caucus and created a significant breach of trust.”

Jeffries said it’s “under discussion” whether the two lawmakers will face repercussions.

Later Tuesday, Jeffries said, in a joint statement with Reps. Katherine Clark and Pete Aguilar, “It is an action that necessitates a serious response, and we have asked the Committee on Caucus Rules to take this up in short order.”

Golden said in a statement, “I voted for the rule for one simple reason: It paved the way for a vote on my bill to protect Maine lobstermen from costly, burdensome new regulations that would put them out of business.”

“My constituents don’t care about the team sports of Congressional procedure,” he added.

Across the caucus, Democrats argued the defection in their ranks prevented a massive and embarrassing defeat for Republicans that could have forced Johnson to send members home for the rest of September.

Typically, members of the minority party stick together to oppose these kind of procedural votes, which the majority party needs to bring bills to the floor.

Multiple conservatives were blocking their party leaders’ plans for the floor this week in an attempt to protest a separate move to pass a stopgap funding bill that’s detested by the far right.

Republicans like Rep. Chip Roy refused to support a Senate-passed funding bill that didn’t allow House conservatives to insert their own priorities, like provisions against what they call “mass surveillance” or more money for President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda.

This story has been updated with additional information.