LONGUEUIL — Jeremy Hansen is on the cusp of embarking on a historic deep space mission to the moon, admitting to some inquisitive students Thursday that while the unknowns present a scary prospect, some risks are worth it.

Hansen was asked about his fears as he took questions from Grade 5 and 6 students from St. Jude Elementary School on Montreal’s South Shore about the Artemis 2 mission around the moon.

“What helps me with that is that I have learned to trust myself and to trust others,” Hansen, 49, of London, Ont., said at the Canadian Space Agency headquarters in Longueuil, Que.

“And I have no guarantee of the outcome: you can die in space just like you can die here on Earth, but what I do believe is that we have been very smart about our approach.”

The Canadian and his NASA astrona

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