As the Orion spacecraft prepares for its Friday night return to Earth, astronaut Jeremy Hansen, who was born in London and raised in Ailsa Craig and Ingersoll, will complete a historic journey – becoming the first non-American to travel into deep space.

NASA has an online tracker for Artemis II available on desktop and as a mobile app, which allows users to see where the Orion spacecraft is, how fast it's traveling, and how many miles it is in real time from both the Earth and the moon during its 10-day mission toward and around the moon, according to NASA.

“With eyes closed, it was almost impossible to walk in a straight line,” NASA astronaut Andreas Mogensen previously said while recalling the side effects following a 200-day stint in space in 2024 as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission.

Four astronauts traveling back to Earth from the far side of the moon on NASA's Artemis II mission spoke of their emotions as they wrapped up the