The launch of Artemis ll is scheduled for the New Year, a huge step in our journey to return to the moon. Four astronauts will travel further from Earth than any human has before, making a loop around the moon. We’re so proud and excited that one of those astronauts, Jeremy Hansen, is Canadian! We’re teaming up with the Canadian Space Agency for Jeremy’s only classroom event before the launch, you don’t want to miss taking part in this with your students!
Jeremy Hansen was raised on a farm near Ailsa Craig, Ontario, until moving to Ingersoll for his high school years. He has been passionate about aerospace from an early age and credits the Royal Canadian Air Cadet Program with helping him achieve his goals. His time in the cadets, from the ages of 12 to 18, prepared him to enroll in the Royal Canadian Air Force, where he became a CF-18 fighter pilot in several squadrons. Colonel Hansen was selected as an astronaut candidate in May 2009.
Since 2011, he has been a full-fledged astronaut and has represented the Canadian Space Agency at NASA. In 2017, he became the first Canadian to be entrusted with leading a NASA astronaut class, which means that he was in charge of the training astronaut candidates from the United States and Canada. Jeremy is a crewmember of the Artemis II mission, the first crewed flight test of the Orion spacecraft launching on the SLS rocket. He will make history as the first Canadian to go on a mission around the Moon.
Join in with your students to learn more about how Jeremy is preparing for the mission and for a chance to ask some questions.
