Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen reflected on his historic Artemis II lunar mission on Thursday, saying it left him with a powerful sense of his connection to all of humanity.
“Small and powerless, yet powerful together,” Hansen said at a news conference for the Artemis ll crew at the Houston space centre—the first since the astronauts returned to Earth.
The four-person crew—commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover and mission specialists Christina Koch and Hansen—splashed down in the Pacific Ocean near San Diego, Calif., on April 10.
The 10-day flight saw astronauts travel to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years, setting a record for the greatest distance travelled by humans away from Earth….