Hansen's participation was part of a 2020 agreement between NASA and the Canadian Space Agency. Read More: NASA to spend $20 billion on moon base, cancel orbiting lunar stationFor now, and ​in the near future, governments will drive companies' ⁠lunar strategies and revenue. The Artemis II mission will pose a greater test of NASA's Orion capsule and SLS, which conducted a similar uncrewed mission in 2022. Thereafter, another launch window, determined largely by orbital ⁠mechanics between Earth ​and the moon, opens on April 30. His decision pushed the program's first crewed lunar landing to Artemis IV.

Source: The Express Tribune March 30, 2026 19:55 UTC