Even with a mission to the moon on the horizon, Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen still made time for a Q&A with St. Carlo Acutis Legacy Academys Grade 8 and 9 students in Penticton.

Hansen will be joining three other NASA astronauts on Artemis II, which will launch in February and return humans around the moon for the first time since 1972. And Hansen will be the first Canadian to pay a visit.

The students from Penticton got to meet the astronaut via video chat earlier this month. Hundreds of other students were watching, but the St. Carlo Acutis Legacy Academy kids were among the lucky few to ask questions. They gained an understanding of how monumental of a challenge it truly is to launch a spacecraft to the moon and back. The plan for Artemis II is to spend 10 days traveling over 1-mi

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