CANADA PERSPECTIVE

Ottawa is living Artemis II as a national event and the distance record as a Canadian victory. Jeremy Hansen, a Canadian Space Agency astronaut, is the first non-American to fly past the Moon since Apollo -- and the Globe and Mail won't let anyone forget it. 'It really just bent your mind,' Hansen says after the far side flyby. That quote leads the story because it comes from a Canadian, not an American. Canada bought itself a seat in the capsule that broke every record, for the price of its Canadarm3 contribution. It's Canadian diplomatic calculus at its finest: a modest technological contribution converted into immense national pride. Hansen is simultaneously a NASA astronaut, a Canadian military officer, and a symbol of multiculturalism -- a francophone from London, Ontario, speaking from lunar orbit. Canadian coverage is the only one in the panel to insist on naming every crew member individually, the way a country counts its Olympic medals. The detail of Commander Wiseman wanting to name a crater 'Carroll' after his late wife gets amplified in Canada -- a country that always puts the human before the machine.