{"id":597465,"date":"2026-04-11T17:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T17:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/597465\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T17:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T17:31:07","slug":"after-artemis-ii-a-look-at-canadas-future-involvement-in-space-exploration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/597465\/","title":{"rendered":"After Artemis II, a look at Canada&#8217;s future involvement in space exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">MONTREAL \u2014 Artemis II is back on Earth \u2014 and Canada had a seat on board \u2014 but the country\u2019s lunar role for future missions is not finished.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Now, the focus shifts to what comes next, with Canadians already involved behind the scenes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For Artemis IV, an Ontario planetary scientist, Dr. Gordon Osinski, is set to help guide astronauts at the lunar south pole \u2014 the first human return since 1972.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">That work includes mapping routes, selecting samples and shaping the science done on the surface.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Canada is also eyeing a material contribution set to be ready for 2034: the creation of a lunar rover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As Caroline-Emmanuelle Morisset, senior scientist in lunar and planetary science at the Canadian Space Agency, puts it, Canada isn\u2019t just watching the next missions in space, it\u2019s helping build them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published April, 11, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8211;with files from William Eltherington<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL \u2014 Artemis II is back on Earth \u2014 and Canada had a seat on board \u2014 but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,226566,216712,226567,88407,45627,44,137948,944],"class_list":["post-597465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-caroline-emmanuelle-morisset","tag-gordon-osinski","tag-guide-astronauts","tag-lunar-rover","tag-lunar-south-pole","tag-news","tag-planetary-scientist","tag-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597465","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=597465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}