“I like the fact that in space, we are committed to bold goals to the extent that we will not let periodic failure stop our forward progress,”
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Jeremy Hansen
Jeremy Roger Hansen is a Royal Canadian Air Force colonel and CSA astronaut. 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. He is also among the humans who have travelled the farthest from Earth, having broken Apollo 13's distance record with the rest of the Artemi…
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science · Canadian astronaut, circled the Moon in 2026 (born 1976) · astronaut · fighter pilot · physicist · air force officer · also Jeremy Hansen, Hansen
Born 27 January 1976 · Q1687593
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2026· 5 entries
“To do something that has never been done before means that your team is very likely to face failure,”
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Public attention spiked: 3,265 Wikipedia readers in one day, 10.3× the usual 318, with 6 article edits. Editors noted: Career retirement section
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Launched as a mission specialist of Artemis II and flew around the Moon on April 6 before returning to earth via splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on April 10
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“s astronaut program in September, planning to pursue new opportunities in Canada”
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2023· 1 entry
Hansen was announced as the first Canadian to travel to the vicinity of the Moon, as part of the Artemis II mission
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2020· 1 entry
Published “<i>Planck</i> 2018 results” in Astronomy & Astrophysics — cited 13,436 times.
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2016· 1 entry
Published “<i>Planck</i>2015 results” in Astronomy & Astrophysics — cited 9,892 times.
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2014· 2 entries
NASA announced that Hansen would take part in the NEEMO 19 undersea exploration mission as an aquanaut aboard the Aquarius underwater laboratory
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“Jeremy has been getting ready for this flight since he was five years old,”
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2013· 1 entry
Hansen served as a cavenaut in the European Space Agency's CAVES training programme in Sardinia, alongside Satoshi Furukawa, Michael Barratt, Jack Fischer, Aleksei Ovchinin, and Paolo Nespoli
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2010· 1 entry
Published “A human gut microbial gene catalogue established by metagenomic sequencing” in Nature — cited 9,957 times.
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2009· 1 entry
Published “A safe operating space for humanity” in Nature — cited 9,766 times.
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2000· 1 entry
With research focused on wide field‑of‑view satellite tracking
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1976· 2 entries
Born 1976-01-27.
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In London, Ontario, to Nancy Good and Gary Hansen
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