Artemis II astronauts, including Jeremy Hansen from the Canadian Space Agency, are expected to make an historic moon flyby today.
The following experts are available to media for comment on eclipsing the Apollo 13 mission, going beyond 248,655 miles (400,171 kilometres) from Earth, and what’s still to come for humanity’s return to the Moon.
Peter Brown
Professor, Faculty of Science
• Space surveillance
• Meteorite origins and cosmochemistry
• Meteoroid impact effects on planetary atmospheres and surfaces
Sarah Gallagher
Director, Institute for Earth and Space Exploration and Professor, Faculty of Science
Former Science Advisor to the President of the Canadian Space Agency (2018-2022)
• Space governance and policy
• Extragalactic astrophysics, including galaxies, quasars and supermassive black holes
• Philosophy of astrophysics
Catherine Neish
Associate Professor, Faculty of Science
Co-Investigator, NASA Dragonfly
• Lunar exploration
• Orbital radar observations of planetary surfaces
• Impact cratering
Valerie Oosterveld
Professor, Faculty of Law
• Space law
• Space mining
• State responsibility in space
• Armed conflict in space
Gordon Osinksi
Professor, Faculty of Science
Member of the first Artemis Lunar Surface Science Team
• Lunar exploration
• Planetary geology
• Astrobiology
• Economic geology
• Impact cratering
Philip Stooke
Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Social Science
• History of lunar exploration
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