Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen has become the first non-NASA astronaut to receive the American Congressional Space Medal of Honor in a ceremony alongside his crewmates on Friday.
U.S. President Donald Trump awarded the four Artemis II astronauts—NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and the Canadian Space Agency’s Hansen—the medal in a ceremony at NASA’s Johnson Space Center.
Hansen was the first of his crewmates to receive the medal. Trump highlighted Hansen’s role as the first non-American to travel so far into space before presenting him the medal with a pat on the back and a handshake….