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Early Life and Education
Jeremy Hansen grew up on a farm near the community of Ailsa Craig, Ontario, where he attended elementary school. His family moved to Ingersoll,
Ontario, where he attended Ingersoll Area Collegiate Institute. At the age of 12 he joined 614 Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron in London, Ontario. At the age of 16 he gained his Air Cadetship
glider pilot wings and at the age of 17 he gained his private pilot’s license and his wings. After graduating from high school and Air Cadets, Hansen was accepted for officer training in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). He was trained in Chilliwack, British Columbia, and the Royal Military College in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu,
Quebec. Hansen then enrolled at the Royal Canadian Military College in Kingston,
Ontario. In 1999, he completed a Bachelor of Science in space science with First Class Honors and was one of the Air Force’s Top Graduates from the Royal Military College. In 2000, he completed his Master of Science in physics with a focus on wide-field satellite tracking.
CAF Pilot
In 2003, Jeremy Hansen completed training as a CF-18 fighter pilot with the 410th Tactical Fighter Operational Training Squadron in Cold Lake, Alberta.
Between 2004 and 2009, he served flying CF-18s with the 441st Tactical Fighter Squadron and the 409th Tactical Fighter Squadron. He also flew as a Combat Operations Officer at 4 Wing Cold Lake. Hansen’s responsibilities included the effectiveness of NORAD operations,
Arctic flight operations and based exercises. He was promoted to the rank of colonel in 2017. (Seg also Royal Canadian Air Force.)
A career as an astronaut
In May 2009, Jeremy Hansen and David Saint-Jacques were selected out of 5,351 applicants for the Canadian Space Agency.
(CSA) third Canadian Astronaut Recruitment Campaign. He graduated from Astronaut Candidate Training in 2011 and began working at the Mission Control Center in Houston, Texas, as a capsule communicator (capcom, the person in Mission Control who speaks directly).
to the astronauts in space.
As a CSA astronaut, Hansen continues to develop his skills. In 2013, he received training in the High Arctic and learned how to conduct geological fieldwork (see Arctic Archipelago;
Geology). That same year, he took part in the European Space Agency’s CAVES program in Sardinia, Italy. In that human performance experiment Hansen lived underground for six days.
In 2014, Hansen was a crew member of NASA’s Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) 19. He spent seven days off Key Largo, Florida, living in the Aquarius habitat on the ocean floor, which is used to simulate the conditions of the International
Space Station and different gravity fields. In 2017, Hansen became the first Canadian to lead a NASA astronaut class, where she trained astronaut candidates from Canada and the United States.
Did you know?
Hansen has been instrumental in encouraging young people to become part of the STEM (Science, Technology,
Engineering, Mathematics) with the aim of encouraging future generations of space explorers.
His inspiring work in Canada includes flying the historic F-86 Saber “Hawk One” jet.
Artemis II
In April 2023, Hansen was selected along with Americans Christina Koch, Victor Glover and Reid Wiseman to crew NASA’s Artemis II mission to the moon. The mission, scheduled for no earlier
or September 2025 after delays due to technical problems, marking NASA’s first manned lunar mission since Apollo 17 in 1972. Artemis II astronauts will not land on the moon
surface, but will orbit the moon in an Orion spacecraft. They will carry out tests in preparation for future manned landings on the moon, the establishment of an orbiting space station called Porth Lunar, or Porth, and a center on the surface of the moon where astronauts
able to live and work for extended periods. The path taken by Orion carrying the astronauts further from Earth than any human has traveled before. Hansen’s involvement in Artemis II is a direct result of Canada’s contribution of Canadarm3
to the Moon Gate. (See also Canadarm; Canadian Space Agency.)
“Being part of the Artemis II crew is both exciting and humbling. I am excited to leverage my experience, training and knowledge to undertake this challenging mission on behalf of Canada. I am overwhelmed by the incredible contributions and hard work of so many
Canadians have made this opportunity a reality. I am proud and honored to represent my country on this historic mission.” – Jeremy Hansen (Canadian Space Agency, 2023)
Did you know?
On his Artemis II trip, Hansen will wear an indigenously designed mission piece created for him by Anishinaabe artist Henry Guimond.
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