{"id":624382,"date":"2026-04-24T00:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/624382\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T00:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:05:08","slug":"canadas-moon-joy-will-continue-long-past-artemis-ii-heres-whats-next-for-our-space-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/624382\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s \u2018moon joy\u2019 will continue long past Artemis II. Here\u2019s what\u2019s next for our space program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    Astronauts<\/p>\n<p>After Hansen, are any other Canadians up for Artemis missions? While that is being negotiated, there are three other fully qualified active astronauts at CSA: Jenni Gibbons, Joshua Kutryk and David Saint-Jacques.<\/p>\n<p>Canada should have access to at least two Artemis mission opportunities based on the CSA\u2019s contributions, but the second mission has not yet been decided. Gibbons, who served as Artemis II mission backup and as one of the astronaut communicators in Mission Control, seems a natural fit. She is not currently assigned to any spaceflight, but has said she\u2019s ready to go where needed when the opportunity arises.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be spaceflight opportunities closer to Earth. Kutryk, for example, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/space-agency\/news\/2026\/04\/canadian-space-agency-astronaut-joshua-kutryk-assigned-to-crew-13-space-station-mission.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has been assigned to an International Space Station mission<\/a>, launching no earlier than September of this year. During the long-duration mission, Kutryk will conduct several experiments, many of them focused on human health. The last Canadian to fly an ISS mission was Saint-Jacques in 2018-19.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, reams of science are still to come from Artemis II. Hansen and his crew are just beginning debriefs on Earth of their science observations. But what is clear, as Hansen said at a January media event at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center, is that Canada intends to keep contributing to moon missions and other NASA crewed efforts \u2013 through science, technology, and astronauts. \u201cWe have skill sets, and I know Canada will rise to the challenge,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Astronauts After Hansen, are any other Canadians up for Artemis missions? While that is being negotiated, there are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49,48,66],"class_list":["post-624382","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\/624382","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=624382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}