{"id":591068,"date":"2026-04-08T21:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T21:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/591068\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T21:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T21:36:08","slug":"carney-to-speak-with-astronaut-jeremy-hansen-after-artemis-iis-historic-moon-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/591068\/","title":{"rendered":"Carney to speak with astronaut Jeremy Hansen after Artemis II\u2019s historic moon mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"display:block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/resizer\/v2\/J2YPDKN25BDGDB26AY5GOBOWCM.jpg?auth=a0225d3091136674082f2325a519e76cdc511cae9b30c1b85cf689dccecb0dbf&amp;width=600&amp;height=400&amp;quality=80&amp;smart=true\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" data-photo-viewer-index=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"figcap-text\">Astronaut Jeremy Hansen at the Canadian Space Agency in Longueuil, Que., in October, 2025.Graham Hughes\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Prime Minister Mark Carney is scheduled to speak today with Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen after the Artemis II\u2019s historic mission to the moon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">A media advisory from the Canadian Space Agency says Industry Minister M\u00e9lanie Joly will also take part.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">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\u2019s distance record from 1970.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text mv-16 l-inset text-pb-8\" data-sophi-feature=\"interstitial\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/canada\/science\/article-what-we-learned-from-the-artemis-ii-mission-and-what-comes-next\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What we learned from the Artemis II mission and what comes next<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">It\u2019s a step toward landing boot prints near the moon\u2019s south pole in just two years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">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\u2019s a testament to Hansen\u2019s \u201cexceptional skill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Astronaut Jeremy Hansen at the Canadian Space Agency in Longueuil, Que., in 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