Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen and the remaining of the Artemis II crew have received a hero’s welcome at Canadian Space Agency headquarters after their journey to the far side of the moon.
Hansen told a cheering crowd in Longueuil, Que., that most of the people within the room helped make the mission a hit.
The ten-day mission took Hansen, mission commander Reid Wiseman and astronauts Victor Glover and Christina Koch farther from Earth than any humans before them.
Koch told the group that each she and Glover previously trained in Canada and that the CSA looks like home to them too.
The crew then answered questions from Industry Minister Mélanie Joly and members of the general public alongside Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jenni Gibbons, who was a part of the team at NASA’s Mission Control Center.
Wiseman said the international makeup of the Artemis II crew brought a diversity of perspectives that strengthened the mission and united the world.
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