{"id":399814,"date":"2026-04-19T06:59:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T06:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/399814\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T06:59:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T06:59:24","slug":"kahnawake-talks-to-outer-space-the-eastern-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/399814\/","title":{"rendered":"Kahnawake talks to outer space \u2013 The Eastern Door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Artemis-II-crew-q-2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Twelve-year-old Ella Mae McComber went to the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to ask a question to astronaut Jeremy Hansen and the rest of the Artemis II crew as they explored outer space.Courtesy Tasha Kirby<\/p>\n<p>Twelve-year-old Ella Mae McComber was over the moon last week when she made contact with the Artemis II space mission, asking a question of astronaut Jeremy Hansen as he and his team soared hundreds of thousands of kilometres into outer space.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was nervous at first, but super excited too, I didn\u2019t think I was able to actually connect with them,\u201d said McComber. \u201cWhen I did, it was a great experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McComber was able to speak with the astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft, also known as Integrity, during a space-to-earth livestream last week, where the astronauts also fielded questions from Canadian prime minister Mark Carney during their 10-day lunar fly-by. The trip marked the first crewed mission to the moon in over 50 years, and Hansen is the first Canadian to fly into deep space.<\/p>\n<p>The Q&amp;A event, hosted by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), was opened with the Oh\u00e8nton Karihwat\u00e9hkwen read in Kanien\u2019k\u00e9ha by Kahnawake\u2019s Bryan Akwirente Deer, who shared a little about the meaning and his thoughts on the astronaut\u2019s mission to the moon with attendees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Grandmother Moon has a lot of jobs for us, a great responsibility, she works with the women, and she\u2019s the one that we say leads the faces yet to come, the children yet to come,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to thank the Creator, for still putting everything here on the Earth for us, and allowing us to still live on this Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Twelve-year-old Ella Mae McComber went to the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to ask a question to astronaut Jeremy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[85,46,141,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-399814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399814","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=399814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}