Jeremy Hansen

Jeremy Hansen is a colonel in the Royal Canadian Air Force and a Canadian Space Agency astronaut. Raised near Ailsa Craig, Ontario, he flew CF-18 fighters before the agency selected him in 2009, alongside David Saint-Jacques. As a mission specialist on Artemis II in April 2026, he became the only person who is not from the United States to travel beyond low Earth orbit and to the vicinity of the Moon. With the rest of the crew he also broke the distance record set by Apollo 13. In July 2026 he announced that he would retire from the astronaut programme in September.

Born: 27 January 1976
Country: Canada
Flights: 1: Artemis II (2026)

Data as of 2 November 2026. Source: Wikidata (CC0). All people who have flown in space.

Events

Artemis II
- Orion, SLS
- Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, Jeremy Hansen
Artemis II was the first crewed flight of the Artemis programme and the first time people had flown to the Moon since Apollo 17. Orion Integrity was the first crewed spacecraft to fly on the Space Launch System.
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