Canadian Astronaut Makes History on Moon Mission

0:00It's April 2. From your city to your ears, this is Canada News Today, powered by AI. I'm Cory with the story. Artemis II blasted off smooth from Kennedy Space Center this week, kicking off humanity's first moon mission in over 50 years. Four astronauts are orbiting Earth right now. Canada's own Jeremy Hanson, plus NASA's Reed Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch. They're sticking close to home base at first, running tests on all the systems before igniting that big engine to slingshot toward the moon. This puts Hanson in the history books as the first not-American flying, beyond low Earth orbit, a huge milestone that reps all of us on this rock. The whole 10-day trip sets the stage for NASA's big push toward a lasting moon outpost down the line. Crews looking solid as they gear up for lunar flyby, paving the way for deeper space hops ahead.