Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed … ‘Payoff day’: Jenni Gibbons on watching Artemis II crew make lunar history Canadian astronaut Jenni Gibbons is already reflecting on her brief but gratifying time bearing witness to history. On Monday, fellow Canadian Jeremy Hansen and his three American crewmates took part in a six-hour lunar flyby — the highlight of NASA’s first return to the moon since the Apollo era. Gibbons has been a voice link from Earth to space — coaching her friend and the other astronauts on key mission objectives. She says the moments leading up to — and immediately after — the Orion capsule lost radio contact as it travelled behind the moon were tense, but it was…
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