Jeremy Hansen Announces Big Personal News Days After Artemis II Splashdown
The four-person Artemis II crew, featuring astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen, returned to Earth following their historic 10-day lunar flyby mission on Friday evening.
The crew splashed down off the coast of San Diego and were later transported to Houston's Johnson Space Center, where they reunited with their families on Saturday.
Hansen, the lone Canadian Space Agency astronaut on the mission, returned just in time to celebrate his 23rd wedding anniversary with his wife, Catherine.
Hansen shared the news in a social media post on Sunday, including a photo of his wedding ring floating in zero gravity aboard the Orion spacecraft.
"Launching on April 1st meant I got back in time to celebrate my 23rd wedding anniversary with Catherine today! Grateful to be able to share this zero g photo of my wedding ring in person over dinner tonight… as well as some cuddle time on Earth," Hansen wrote.
Launching on April 1st meant I got back in time to celebrate my 23rd wedding anniversary with Catherine today! Grateful to be able to share this zero g photo of my wedding ring in person over dinner tonight… as well as some cuddle time on Earth. pic.twitter.com/cKvMgJnDfK
— Jeremy R. Hansen (@Astro_Jeremy) April 13, 2026
"Happy anniversary brother!" Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman of NASA wrote in the comment section.
Catherine Hansen is an "accomplished obstetrician-gynecologist." She "met her husband in Moose Jaw, Sask., when she went to watch her brother get his Air Force pilot wings," according to a report from the Times Colonist.
Hansen immediately told her that he planned to become an astronaut.
"I cannot really explain to people how important it is to just lift each other up, and that's exactly what we've done," Catherine Hansen said. "He's done that with my work and my business. I've done that with him and his work."
(Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Hansen, 50, served as the mission specialist for Artemis II. As an Ontario native, he became the first non-American in history to travel beyond low Earth orbit. He and the rest of the crew set a new human distance record of more than 250,000 miles from Earth, breaking the previous record set by the Apollo 13 crew in 1970.