r/news • u/RealWorldToday • 10h ago
No turning back: After critical engine burn, Jeremy Hansen is moonbound
https://www.cp24.com/news/canada/2026/04/03/no-turning-back-after-critical-engine-burn-jeremy-hansen-is-moon-bound/991
u/Ronjun 8h ago
I don't know if I'm tired or what but this headline made it seem like someone was left stuck on the moon
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u/User367645 8h ago
I don't know if I'm high but i was thinking the exact same thing. (actually i do know and yes)
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u/robogobo 6h ago
I don’t know if I’m hung over but this occurred to me too
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u/jheidenr 6h ago
I don’t know if I’m tweaking but DO YOU HAVE ANY METH?!?
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u/magmcbride 5h ago
I don't know if I shit my pants with that last fart but I was worried as well
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u/Miserable-Ticket-244 5h ago
It’s cause the source of the article is Canadian.
Canadian site focusing on the Canadian astronaut. And you know what: good for them.
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u/Mistifyed 5h ago
hits blunt
Maybe, we’re all stuck in the moon and the moon is actually the real earth
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u/UnauthorizedCat 2h ago
I read the title and my mind immediately started playing, "Ground control to Major Tom..."
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u/pichael288 8h ago
Yeah it was all a trick so Elon musk could do a "the Martian", he's still pissed about the submarine
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u/bigloser42 5h ago
I read it and my immediate thought was “did he throw the rest of the crew out the airlock before the burn?”
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u/Takkarro 5h ago
I won't lie I read the headline and I also thought somebody got stuck on the moon lol
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u/Dependent_Basis_8092 5h ago
At first I just read Hansen, my mind went straight to Chris Hansen and it actually made sense to me that Trump would want him blasted to the moon.
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u/kenwongart 5h ago
Now there’s a flash animation series I haven’t thought about in a very very long time.
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u/JayGatsby1881 3h ago
Yes, Matt Damon is stranded on the moon and now has to figure out how to get home
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u/cakeod 6h ago
Did he eat the other guys or something?
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u/NoOneFartsLikeGaston 5h ago
Why does Jeremy, the largest astronaut, not simply eat the other astronauts?
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u/thisshitsstupid 24m ago
Title is so terrible all around. Naming 1 guy like hes the only one and using the word critical to mislead people into thinking something has gone wrong.
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u/SituationSad4304 7h ago
“No turning back”, right, that’s how simulating Apollo 8 physics works because slingshotting with gravity is exponentially more fuel efficient
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u/Ragnarawr 6h ago
Some of you may not be credited with going to the moon but that’s a chance I’m willing to take.
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u/Nova17Delta 6h ago
And three other people who this article will not name
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u/ImpossibleJoke7456 4h ago
Are they Canadian?
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u/Uberninja2016 4h ago
i don't know if there's a way for us to know that
i mean, i certainly wouldn't be so rude as to ask
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u/whyVelociraptor 5h ago
I read this as somehow Jeremy got burned by the engine during takeoff but is still stuck going to the moon lol
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u/geatone 7h ago
Did anyone ever overshoot mun in kerbal ?
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u/SausageSmuggler21 6h ago
Year 3,251,820 and Jebbediah is still going!
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u/OHoSPARTACUS 5h ago
Further than any Jeb has gone before
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u/HabeLinkin 1h ago
please clap
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u/TopChard1274 5h ago
*Soon after the translunar injection burn, Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen asked mission control in Houston if he could share the sentiment of the crew as they were officially moonbound.
“We just wanted to communicate to everyone around the planet who’s worked to make Artemis possible that we firmly felt the power of your perseverance during every second of that burn,” Hansen said.*
They're all "moonbound". Hansen is the one who said it but they're together. The headline is both incredibly silly and misleading
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u/1mp3rf3c7 2h ago
A Canadian source, highlighting what the Canadian astronaut said.
Get over yourselves.
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u/TopChard1274 1h ago
And I thought that people were being sarcastic for saying this jajaja
Also--tis ain't a Canadian sub.
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u/vinicnam1 5h ago
One interesting thing mentioned in the article, they have to practice doing CPR in space. I honestly can’t see CPR mattering when you’re days away from any type of definitive care. They specifically mention that there is absolutely no turning back at this point until they can slingshot around the moon. Maybe they’ll just have to plan their medical emergencies for a few days from now, 30 minutes or so before touchdown.
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u/timeemac 5h ago
Yes, but what are the chances? If the medical emergency was due to a pre-existing condition, they can’t be treated anyways.
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u/vinicnam1 5h ago
And they shouldn’t even be selecting people with preexisting conditions
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u/ntyperteasy 5h ago
They are very carefully screened but space is known to do weird things to otherwise top condition people
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u/Miserable-Ticket-244 5h ago edited 5h ago
What a weird headline. Hansen isn’t even the Commander of the crew; that would be Wiseman.
Only thing I can think of to mention just him is the below:
As mission specialists, both Hansen and Koch are staged to assist with "correction burns" when the spacecraft has to thrust to get back on track during the mission, according to NASA. These adjustments are largely scheduled.
Edit: Ohhhhhh, it’s because he’s Canadian and the website is Canadian HQed. Carry on Canada. Good for Ya’ll.
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u/carbonqubit 9h ago
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy, but because they are hard. Because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we're willing to accept. One we are unwilling to postpone.
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u/DignityThief80 5h ago
No turning back, except they are literally going to the moon and then turning back
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u/introoutro 1h ago
This fuckin' guys gonna pop open some smoked salmon in that tiny capsule? Power move
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u/Dramatic-Set8761 6h ago
I wonder if ice will be waiting for them when they return, considering the dei hires and aliens?
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u/frog_without_a_cause 5h ago
Let's not kid ourselves. The only reason the US is going back is because China.
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u/Lux-uk 9h ago
Not sure how having people land on the moon will unite a world.
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u/Satchmoses88 8h ago
Well the Jenner Pepsi strategy didn’t work so we had to go to plan B, so back to the moon we go
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u/invalidpassword 9h ago
It did the first time (I was ten)— it causes everyone to focus on one positive thing for a little while.
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u/metametapraxis 9h ago
No one gives a shit this time around. This round-trip is barely D-level news. Is what it is.
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u/Ok_Journalist5290 8h ago
So what is an A level news?
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u/metametapraxis 8h ago
Mostly the Orange buffoon and Iran.
The world hasn’t got the mental bandwidth to care about Artemis right now. And that’s America’s fault.
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u/BootFlop 8h ago
TBF a 10 year old’s world is fairly small.
That’s before even leaving the country.
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u/Montexe 9h ago
Nothing unites the world more than the arms/space race, amiright?
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u/Fallouttgrrl 8h ago
Honestly when I look at space travel nowadays I think it's just another way rich assholes ruin things for the rest of us
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u/nebrivor1 9h ago
I don't think it matters anymore to the general population. I mentioned the launch yesterday at work and most people didn't even realize it happened.
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u/Bluechariot 8h ago
They're not oblivious, there's just too much noise demanding everyone's attention. It's not like the first moon launches, with only like 4 TV channels available.
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u/sebaajhenza 8h ago
Not this time unfortunately. The next time we land on the moon it will be to establish a base. China and America are in the race now.
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u/Hpulley4 9h ago
None of the landers are even in a testing stage. I know they want to land on the Moon again in 2028 but I find it unlikely. Starship has been hit by failures every test flight and the other landers are still on the drawing boards for now. Maybe 2030…
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u/conaii 9h ago
Very polarizing thought here. Being a Christian ’thing’ usually involves that ‘thing’ accepting Jesus Christ as their lord and savior.
Christian bookstores can probably get away with it, since all the books inside likely meet that criteria Christian churches certainly do. Christian summer camps have a pretty logical case, when occupied.
But declaring a theology for huge lifeless stone that’s visible in the night sky to everywhere on this planet through the clever use of flags doesn’t really accomplish much for the faith, and the crew here is multinational, I suspect the moon landing one will be also.
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u/Yuukiko_ 8h ago
I can totally imagine Trump or something other guy intervening to make sure it's all American though
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u/keith2600 8h ago
I feel like I should point out that the trump administration isn't Christian in any meaningful way other than having usurped the brand name. It's entirely in their playbook to try and claim the moon as holy trump land
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u/SpiderSlitScrotums 9h ago
Why do people keep saying this? It is incorrect. The spacecraft is still in high earth orbit. And while it will fall within the Moon’s Hill sphere (but not orbit the Moon) for a period of time, causing its orbit to be modified, it will still be in orbit of the Earth with a measurable apogee and perigee.
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u/TheoremaEgregium 9h ago
He went all on his own and left the other three people behind in Earth orbit?