It paves the way for the Artemis III mission to return to the surface of the moon targeted for 2025.
The other three members of the crew, mission specialist Christina Koch, pilot Victor Glover and commander Reid Wiseman are all American. Hansen, 47, was chosen from the Canadian Space Agency’s pool of active astronauts, which also includes David Saint-Jacques, 53, an engineer and astrophysicist from Saint-Lambert, Que.; Joshua Kutryk, 41, a fighter pilot and engineer from Fort Saskatchewan, Alta.; and Jennifer Sidey-Gibbons, 34, a mechanical engineer and combustion scientist from Calgary.
After liftoff from pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the crew, aboard one of NASA’s Orion spacecraft will circle the Earth twice before heading for the moon. There it will circle the moon — potentially travelling further away from the earth than any human in history ever has — before returning to Earth for a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean of the U.S. west coast. The exact distance is yet to be determined, but the unmanned Artemis I which circled the moon in 2022, travelled 2.1 million kilometres on its 25-day mission and reached a maximum distance from Earth of 432,210 kilometres.
Is orbit the right word for this?
This is an outrage. Where is the diversity. The white men need to step down and be replaced by minorities.
This is an outrage. Where is the diversity. The white men need to step down and be replaced by minorities. Especially Jeremy Hanson. End the white patriarchy now!
What’s his relation to Trudeau? Step brother? Son-in-law? Best friends from uni?