{"id":598178,"date":"2026-04-12T01:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T01:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/598178\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T01:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T01:40:14","slug":"canadian-astronaut-and-artemis-ii-crew-return-to-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/598178\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian astronaut and Artemis II crew return to Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4025984c-9a23-4944-b31d-fb111068c695-1.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Artemis II crew, from left, Jeremy Hansen, Christina Koch, Victor Glover and Reid Wiseman acknowledge the crowd as they take the stage during a crew return event Saturday, April 11, 2026, at Ellington Airforce Base in Houston. (Image Credit: AP Photo\/Michael Wyke)<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>Back at base<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tApr 11, 2026 | 5:14 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen and his crew members received a standing ovation as they were welcomed back in Houston after splashing down in the Pacific Ocean on Friday, concluding the\u00a0Artemis\u00a0II mission.<\/p>\n<p>Hansen expressed gratitude for his family, NASA, and the Canadian Space Agency. He said in French: \u2018\u2019I\u2019m excited to come back to Canada with Reid, Christina, and Victor.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Still marvelling over their record-breaking lunar fly-around, the crew of four flew to Houston\u2019s Ellington Field from San Diego on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>After a quick reunion with their families, the astronauts took the stage, surrounded by hundreds who took part in NASA\u2019s historic lunar comeback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Artemis II crew, from left, Jeremy Hansen, Christina Koch, Victor Glover and Reid Wiseman acknowledge the crowd&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49,48,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-598178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598178","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=598178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}