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Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen and NASA crewmates to hold news conference
The four astronauts said the 10-day mission met all primary objectives and showed the Artemis program can move toward future lunar landings.
- On Thursday, the Artemis crew—Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen—will hold their first postflight news conference at 2:30 p.m. EST at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
- Splashing down in the Pacific Ocean last Friday, the four-person crew completed their 10-day flight to the Moon and returned to Houston for a jubilant homecoming at Ellington Field.
- The 10-day mission set a record for the greatest distance traveled by humans from Earth, marking the first return to the Moon in more than 50 years. Hansen became the first non-American to travel beyond low Earth orbit and the first to speak French en route.
- Prime Minister Mark Carney called the mission "hugely inspiring" and said Canadians couldn't be more proud of Hansen and the collaboration with the United States. The crew requested a lunar crater be named after Wiseman's late wife, Carroll, who died in 2020.
- Unlike the Apollo program, which sent humans to the Moon from 1968 through 1972, the Artemis initiative aims to establish a permanent human lunar presence and lay groundwork for future missions to Mars.
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Astronaut Jeremy Hansen, Artemis II crewmates hold news conference
Southwestern Ontario astronaut Jeremy Hansen is back after a mission around the moon that took him and his Artemis II crewmates farther from Earth than anyone in human history. NASA is holding a Thursday afternoon news conference – follow along here for updates:
·London, Canada
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Artemis II crew holds news conference after historic moon flyby
The astronauts — Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch with NASA, along with Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency — discussed their living situations aboard the Orion capsule, the physical and mental challenges they faced, and their reactions to traveling further from Earth than anyone in history.
·Nashville, United States
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