{"id":573946,"date":"2026-03-31T23:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T23:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/573946\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T23:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T23:48:09","slug":"space-enthusiasts-excited-as-canadian-set-to-circle-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/573946\/","title":{"rendered":"Space enthusiasts excited as Canadian set to circle the moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBehind this flight stands a campaign. Landings, a lunar base, a nuclear propulsion into deep space that begins, not ends, with what happens on Wednesday evening. I have complete confidence in this team and the NASA workforce.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/indicator-big.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The mission is generating a renewed sense of excitement for many Canadians, including Air Ronge\u2019s Scott Bell. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bell has had a lifelong passion for astronomy ever since he lived near a rocket range in Churchill, Man., as a child. He spent more than two decades visiting schools throughout Saskatchewan, educating students through the use of telescopes and a unique portable planetarium. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bell explained this is an exciting time for space enthusiasts as \u201ca Canadian specialist carrying our hopes and dreams beyond Earth, providing leadership and heroism to our up and coming explorers and engineers.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat an amazing visual trip we will all be on traveling from Earth to the moon and back with today\u2019s technologies, along with the spacecraft and crew,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese four\u00a0people will see the full disk of the Earth suspended in space \u2026 and the far side of our moon, the side that never faces the Earth and none of us on Earth will ever lay eyes on.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As a way to celebrate the historic mission, Bell is inviting community members to the municipal park along De Havilland Street. He will have a telescope pointed at the moon at around 5:30 p.m. and residents are invited to take a peek. <\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>derek.cornet@pattisonmedia.com  \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cBehind this flight stands a campaign. Landings, a lunar base, a nuclear propulsion into deep space that begins,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49,48,66],"class_list":["post-573946","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\/573946","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=573946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}