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NASA’s Space Launch System successfully lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, FL on April 1, as part of the Artemis II mission – the first crewed flyby of the moon in more than 50 years. The four-person crew aboard the Orion spacecraft includes Mechanical Business cover personality Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency, the first non-American to be included in a mission of this type.
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NASA’s Space Launch System successfully lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, FL on April 1, as part of the Artemis II mission – the first crewed flyby of the moon in more than 50 years. The four-person crew aboard the Orion spacecraft includes Mechanical Business cover personality Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency, the first non-American to be included in a mission of this type.

April 9, 2026

MB cover personality Jeremy Hansen makes history!

NASA’s Space Launch System successfully lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, FL on April 1, as part of the Artemis II mission – the first crewed flyby of the moon in more than 50 years. The four-person crew aboard the Orion spacecraft includes Mechanical Business cover personality Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency, the first non-American to be included in a mission of this type.

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