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The Artemis II crew pose for a group photo after viewing their Orion spacecraft on the USS John P. Murtha, after splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California on April 10, 2026. (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Jeremy Hansen is leaving the Canadian Space Agency, but Canada will still support NASA’s return to the moon

Jenni Gibbons will be lead capsule communicator for NASA’s Artemis III mission, Gordon Osinski is on the science team and Canada also contributes a robotic Lunar Utility Vehicle.
To sustainably survive on the Moon, the rock that stretches as far as the eye can see across its surface might well be able to provide us with the air we need to breathe. Eugene A. Cernan/NASA

Is extracting oxygen from lunar soil the future of space exploration?

As lunar missions are back in vogue with engineering more sustainable human presence on the Moon in mind, there’s no getting away from the fact that you can’t breathe on a satellite that has no atmosphere.

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