19 Apr
19Apr
  1. The spacecraft was named Integrity by the astronauts - partly because they wanted to honour the thousands of workers who integrated over 300,000 individual components to build it
  2. It has taken us over 50 years to go back to the Moon - the last visit was by Apollo 17 in 1972
  3. This mission took humans the farthest they have ever traveled -  the astronauts reached a maximum distance of 406,771 km from Earth
  4. Bijou Living Conditions - the four astronauts spent the entire journey living in a space that was roughly the size of a camper van 
  5. SLS stands for Space Launch System - over 1,100 companies from across America are involved in its design and construction
  6. The Artemis II astronauts are not the first humans to see the far side of the Moon - that record belongs to the Apollo 8 astronauts (Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and William Anders), who orbited the Moon in December 1968 
  7. Jeremy Hanson is the first Canadian to visit the Moon - over 40 years after Marc Garneau became the first Canadian in space 
  8. Christina Koch once worked at the South Pole - before becoming an astronaut she worked as an electrical engineer at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station
  9. At age 50 Reid Wiseman is currently the oldest person to travel to the Moon
  10. Victor Glover is a test pilot and according to the NASA website has accumulated 3,000 flight hours in more than 40 aircraft
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