LONGUEUIL — Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen has spent two-and-a-half years preparing for his upcoming trip to the moon and back, and he's loved every minute of it.

"I know that after I launch and come back, I'm going to miss what I'm doing right now," Hansen said in an interview last week about all the work ahead of the 10-day voyage set to take place in early 2026 — the first launch window opens in February.

Hansen, 49, of London, Ont., is serving as a mission specialist for the Artemis II launch, alongside veteran NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, who will be the commander, pilot Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, the other mission specialist.

The trip will be the first voyage to the moon by astronauts since the last Apollo mission in 1972 and the first crewed mission of the Orion spacec

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