Artemis II - Canada on its way to the Moon

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Artemis II - Canada on its way to the Moon

Take a ride around the Moon with the Artemis II crew by watching this mission overview video! Goosebumps guaranteed!

Canada will make history when CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen flies around the Moon as part of Artemis II, the first crewed mission to the Moon since the Apollo missions.  (Credits: Canadian Space Agency, NASA)

A Canadian. 

The very first to fly around the Moon.

Jeremy Hansen

Astronaut

Canadian Space Agency

Three Americans.

Reid Wiseman

Christina Koch

Victor Glover

NASA astronauts

They will launch from Florida on the first crewed test flight of the Artemis program.

Launch of the Artemis I uncrewed mission

November 16, 2022

The mission’s main goals are to:

evaluate SLS and Orion systems with crew, in deep space

evaluate how Orion flies with astronauts at the controls

perform a flyby around the Moon

They will fly thousands of kilometres beyond the Moon,

take photographs of the surface

and will have a breathtaking view of our planet that only 24 humans got to see before them.

In total, they will travel over 1,000,000 kilometres in nearly 10 days.

They will come home at 39 times the speed of sound.

before they splash down in the Pacific.

Canada is on its way to the Moon.

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