{"id":669679,"date":"2026-05-14T20:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T20:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/669679\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T20:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T20:43:09","slug":"artemis-ii-crew-gets-heros-welcome-at-canadian-space-agency-in-quebec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/669679\/","title":{"rendered":"Artemis II crew gets hero&#8217;s welcome at Canadian Space Agency in Quebec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen and the rest of the Artemis II crew have received a hero&#8217;s welcome at Canadian Space Agency (CSA) headquarters after their journey to the far side of the moon. <\/p>\n<p>Hansen told a cheering crowd in Longueuil, Que., that many of the people in the room helped make the mission a success.<\/p>\n<p>The 10-day mission took Hansen, mission commander Reid Wiseman and astronauts Victor Glover and Christina Koch farther from Earth than any humans before them.<\/p>\n<p>Koch told the crowd that both she and Glover previously trained in Canada and that the CSA feels like home to them too.<\/p>\n<p>The crew then answered questions from Industry Minister M\u00e9lanie\u00a0 Joly and members of the public alongside Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jenni Gibbons, who was part of the team at NASA&#8217;s Mission Control Center. <\/p>\n<p>Wiseman said the international makeup of the Artemis II crew brought a diversity of perspectives that strengthened the mission and united the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49,48,66,306],"class_list":["post-669679","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\/669679","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=669679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}