Canadian astronaut’s bon mots help heal wounds from French language row

<p>Jeremy Hansen praised for speaking French in space after Air Canada chief’s linguistic snub exposed tensions and drew rebuke from PM</p><p>Few people foresaw humanity’s quest for the moon as accurately as the 19th-century French author Jules Verne, whose two works –From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon – anticipated many of the features of modern lunar exploration.</p><p>But Verne’s language had never been spoken in deep space until the Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen uttered four words during Nasa’s recent Artemis II mission.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/19/artemis-astronaut-jeremy-hansen-french-canada">Continue reading...</a>