It\u2019s been a long time since the last manned mission to the moon \u2014 over half-a-century.<\/p>\n
But, we\u2019ll have to wait a little longer after a technical problem grounded the Artemis II lunar mission on Tuesday.<\/a><\/p>\n When it eventually takes-off, Artemis II will have a major Canadian component. Astronaut Jeremy Hansen, who grew up in London, Ont., is one of the mission specialists. And, in the cargo bay, the Canadarm 3<\/a>, was built by Canadian space technology company MDA Space<\/a>.<\/p>\n NASA intends to use the Canadarm 3 to help build the Lunar Gatew<\/a>ay<\/a>, which will become the first space station orbiting the moon.<\/p>\n Orbax, a science educator in the physics department at the University of Guelph, told 570 NewsRadio that Canada has a long collaborative relationship with NASA.<\/p>\n \u201cEven at the University of Guelph, one of our professors in the physics department has an active piece of scientific equipment on the Curiosity Rover on Mars. We\u2019ve been working side-by-side with the Americans and our other colleagues across the world to do science in space for decades.\u201d<\/p>\n Orbax also pointed out that Hansen will be making history with this flight as well.<\/p>\n \u201cNow, not only are we sending a Canadian up past Earth orbit, toward the moon. But it will be the first non-American astronaut to go that far, ever.\u201d<\/p>\n The Artemis flight will take the crew around the far side of the moon, over 10,000 kilometres from the surface. During that time, the crew will conduct tests on the life support systems of the Orion spacecraft and the propulsion system.<\/p>\n The long-term goal of the Gateway is to facilitate research that will eventually lead to missions to Mars and beyond.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been 50-some years since we\u2019ve sent human beings up to the moon,\u201d said Orbax. \u201cThis is an exciting moment for a whole generation or several generations later to get that moment where they see someone set foot on the moon.\u201d<\/p>\n NASA has set a new launch date of no earlier than March 6. That exact date will depend on several factors, including the weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been a long time since the last manned mission to the moon \u2014 over half-a-century. But, we\u2019ll…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49,48,66],"class_list":["post-454120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}