The trip will be the first voyage to the moon by astronauts since the last Apollo mission in 1972 and the first crewed mission of the Orion spacecraft. Here’s five things to consider as Hansen prepares to add another chapter in Canadian space history. Mission control plans everything and “you just get up as a good astronaut everyday and you get the job done.”But the Artemis II mission includes a lot of unknowns. The most significant point of pride is that Artemis II marks a monumental step for Canadian space exploration. A subsequent mission, Artemis III, which will land astronauts on the moon for the first time in more than 50 years, has been delayed until at least mid-2027.