Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen's historic journey around the Moon lasted just days, but its implications continue and will stretch far further despite breaking a spaceflight record.
Western researchers (Left to right): Christopher Pin, Tamie Poepping and Eugene Wong are working with a team at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories to study the effects of radiation on astronauts during space missions. Poepping holds an organoid-on-chip, a tiny microchip lined with living human cells, in her hand. (Christopher Kindratsky/Western Communications)
As part of Artemis II, Hansen and three crewmates became the first humans in more than 50 years to travel beyond low Earth orbit, reaching a distance of roughly 400,000 kilometres from Earth before splashing down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
