BREAKING: NASA, CSA name Jeremy Hansen to be first Canadian to encircle the moon
are all American: Christina Hammock Koch, Victor Glover and G. Reid Wiseman.
President Joe Biden articulated the vision last month in his speech to Parliament, seizing on the Artemis mission as a towering symbol of limitless potential for Canada, elbow-to-elbow with the U.S. Another is David Saint-Jacques, an astrophysicist and medical doctor from Montreal and the only member of the group who's already been to space.
"This time Canada is writing history with our American friends it's not even a new chapter. For me, it's almost like a new book in space exploration." Former astronaut and now-retired Quebec MP Marc Garneau, who back in 1984 became the first Canadian to ever go to space, said Biden's speech left him with a "flashback" to another seminal moment in Canada-U.S. space relations.
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