Jeremy Hansen is a Royal Canadian Air Force colonel and Canadian Space Agency astronaut who, as a mission specialist on the Artemis II mission in April 2026, became the only non-American to travel beyond low Earth orbit and to the vicinity of the Moon, part of the crew that broke the distance record from Earth set by Apollo 13.
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Jeremy Hansen is a Canadian Space Agency astronaut, selected in 2009 and assigned to Artemis II.
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Jeremy Hansen, a Canadian Space Agency astronaut, is assigned as a mission specialist on Artemis II, NASA's crewed lunar flyby mission.
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As a mission specialist on Artemis II in April 2026, he became the only person not from the United States to travel beyond low Earth orbit and to travel to the vicinity of the Moon.
Missions Crewed: Artemis II, Artemis II
Artemis II was crewed by four astronauts: commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialist Christina Koch, all from the NASA Astronaut Corps, along with mission specialist Jeremy Hansen from the Canadian Astronaut Corps.
- Associated With: NASA, Wikipedia: Jeremy Hansen, lead section
- Associated With: Canadian Space Agency, Wikipedia: Jeremy Hansen, lead section
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