Overview

• Jeremy Hansen took questions from elementary students at the Canadian Space Agency in Longueuil roughly 100 days before NASA’s Artemis II launch opportunity opens.
• Hansen will fly with Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch on a roughly 10‑day lunar flyby aboard Orion, which the crew has named Integrity.
• Artemis II would mark the first astronaut mission to the Moon since Apollo, and Canada would become the second nation to send a person around the Moon.
• Officials spotlighted Canada’s robotics legacy, from Canadarm and Canadarm2 to the planned Canadarm3 for the Lunar Gateway.
• The government emphasized economic and strategic payoffs from space, citing about 25,000 jobs, more than $3.2 billion in annual output and dual‑use benefits for security, climate resilience and communications.