US Vice President Introduces First Foreign Astronaut To Land On The Moon

US Vice President Kamala Harris introduced CSA astronaut Jermey Hansen to the public. (twitter @csa_asc)

JAKARTA This year's National Space Council meeting reminded about the importance of international cooperation. This has repeatedly been mentioned by the Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris.

According to Harris, international partnerships are an important milestone in all space exploration, both simple science missions and large landing missions such as those deployed by the United States Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA).

In line with this topic of international partnership, Harris introduced Jeremy Hansen, the first international astronaut to work with the United States on the Artemis mission, which is a human landing on the Moon.

"I'm proud to announce that together with American Astronauts, we intend to land international astronauts on the Moon's surface by the end of the decade," Harris said, quoted by Space explored.

Hansen, an astronaut from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), spoke at the meeting. He talked a lot about the benefits of international cooperation, such as NASA in collaboration with CSA on this flight mission.

Although Artemis is a mission to land on the Moon, Hansen will not land there. The CSA astronaut will fly around the moon as Artemis II is just a flight test for a real landing mission.

The mission that actually landed humans on the Moon was the Artemis III mission. The plan, NASA will land four astronauts using the Space Launch System (SLS) aircraft by 2025.