A Canadian will be among those selected for a lunar voyage for the first time, a milestone that takes the country’s space program where it has never been before
When officials from two space agencies gather on Monday morning to announce the crew of Artemis II – the crucial next step in the U.S. space program’s plans to return humans to the moon – the event will have special import for Canada.
Artemis II, which is set to launch no earlier than November, 2024, will carry four crew members on a 10-day journey around the moon’s far side and back to Earth. The mission will not land on the moon, but it will serve as a necessary test of NASA’s space launch system and the Orion crew module, marking the first time the spacecraft will fly with people on board and setting the stage for subsequent missions to the lunar surface.
As per an agreement struck in late 2020, Canada is guaranteed a seat on Artemis II, as a well as on a later trip to a future moon-orbiting space station called Gateway. In exchange for its participation, Canada is supplying Gateway with a robotic arm and other technical contributions. Jeremy Hansen, 47, an air force fighter pilot who was selected to the program alongside Dr. Saint-Jacques in May, 2009, has been waiting the longest to fly. The other two candidates, Joshua Kutryk, 41, and Jennifer Sidey-Gibbons, 35, were selected in 2017 as part of the Canadian Space Agency’s most recent call for astronauts.
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