Artemis 2 moon crew announcement felt like a Canadian history time warp

HOUSTON — While witnessing the Apollo 11 launch and moon landing in July 1969, Life Magazine journalist Norman Mailer was so befuddled by events that he renamed himself in his writings. On Monday (April 3), I sympathized with Mailer’s choice to call himself Aquarius. I, a Canadian journalist, had the good fortune to attend the ceremony at which NASA announced the crewmembers for its Artemis 2 around-the-moon mission. One of those astronauts, Jeremy Hansen, is a Canadian, and seeing him introduced left me a bit unmoored. When Apollo 11 soared moonbound into the skies on July 16, 1969, there wasn’t…