{"id":579896,"date":"2026-04-03T16:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T16:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/579896\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T16:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T16:32:09","slug":"astronaut-jeremy-hansen-carries-innu-nation-flag-with-him-on-artemis-ii-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/579896\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronaut Jeremy Hansen Carries Innu Nation Flag With Him on Artemis II Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/artemis-ii-launch-via-nasa.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Astronaut Jeremy Hansen Carries Innu Nation Flag With Him on Artemis II Mission\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The launch of Artemis II (Via NASA)<\/p>\n<p>The launch of the Artemis II, the first space journey to the Moon in decades, has some extra meaning for the Innu Nation in Labrador. <\/p>\n<p>Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen carried an Innu Nation Flag into space, and the Innu Nation says he\u2019s also brought along a little piece of Labrador as the space ship orbits the Moon. <\/p>\n<p>The Innu Nation teased that Hansen may also be carrying a piece of rock<a href=\"https:\/\/parks.canada.ca\/culture\/designation\/lieu-site\/kameshtashtan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> from Kameshtashtan,<\/a> near Mistastin Lake, the location of generations of Innu hunting camps in northern Labrador, and now a National Historic Site. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The launch of Artemis II (Via NASA) The launch of the Artemis II, the first space journey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49,48,66,306],"class_list":["post-579896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579896","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=579896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}