A Canadian astronaut on planning his trip to the moon

In today’s Big Story podcast, if all goes according to plan, Col. Jeremy Hansen will soon become the first Canadian to travel to the moon. As a member of the four-person Artemis II crew, he will leave low Earth orbit next year and swing out and around the moon before returning to splashdown in the ocean.

Jeremy talks to us about being chosen for the team, what this mission will accomplish, its margin for error, and how it feels to be one of the four people charged with taking some of the first steps towards travelling past the moon, to Mars and beyond.

“Artemis Is just one more example of how we can do incredible things when we set big goals, we have good intentions, we attract people to come and work collaboratively. We can essentially accomplish the impossible, and it gives me a lot of hope,” he said.

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