{"id":381209,"date":"2026-04-08T10:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/381209\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T10:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:34:09","slug":"carney-to-speak-with-canadian-jeremy-hansen-after-artemis-iis-historic-moon-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/381209\/","title":{"rendered":"Carney to speak with Canadian Jeremy Hansen after Artemis II&#8217;s historic moon mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA \u2014 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>A media advisory from the Canadian Space Agency says Industry Minister M\u00e9lanie Joly will also take part.<\/p>\n<p>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>It\u2019s a step toward landing boot prints near the moon\u2019s south pole in just two years.<\/p>\n<p>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>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<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 8, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 Prime Minister Mark Carney is scheduled to speak today with Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen after the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[85,46,141,145],"class_list":["post-381209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}