Jeremy Hansen

Jeremy Hansen was raised on a farm near Ailsa Craig, Ontario, until moving to Ingersoll for his high school years. Hansen served as a CF-18 fighter pilot with 441 Tactical Fighter Squadron and 409 Tactical Fighter Squadron as well as the Combat Operations Officer at 4 Wing Operations where his responsibilities included effectiveness of NORAD Operations, Deployed Exercises, and Arctic Flying Operations. In 2011, he graduated from Astronaut Candidate Training and started working at the Mission Control Center as a CAPCOM— the voice between the ground and the International Space Station. In 2023, Hansen was assigned to the Artemis II mission, the first crewed flight test of the Orion spacecraft launching on the Space Launch System rocket.