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The Canadian Press
Posted April 8, 2026 7:41 am
Updated April 8, 2026 8:27 pm
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Prime Minister Mark Carney is scheduled to speak Wednesday with Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen after the Artemis II’s historic mission to the moon.
A media advisory from the Canadian Space Agency says Industry Minister Mélanie Joly will also take part.
On Monday, Hansen and his three American crewmates completed a six-hour lunar flyby, going farther into space than any humans before and breaking Apollo 13’s distance record from 1970.
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It’s a step toward landing boot prints near the moon’s south pole in just two years.
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Carney has said that, with Artemis II, Canada became the second country in the world ever to send an astronaut on a lunar mission, and that it’s a testament to Hansen’s “exceptional skill.”
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The crew, after capturing images and other geological observations of the moon, is set to splash down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California on Friday.
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