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I have this very distinct memory

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of seeing an image of an astronaut
standing on the Moon.

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It's burnt in my brain because I went
back to it so many times in my childhood.

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And I would look at that image,
and I know it had a huge impact on me

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that humans had walked on the Moon.

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My name is Colonel Jeremy Hansen.

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I'm an astronaut
with the Canadian Space Agency, 

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and I’m a Mission Specialist on NASA's
Artemis II mission around the Moon.

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My elementary school years, I grew up
on a farm outside of London, Ontario.

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I spent as much time as I could
with my dad on the farm.

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I learned the value of hard work, for example. 

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If I wanted to go to work
with Dad, it was going to be a long day

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and I was going to have to not complain
or I wasn't going to get to go the next day. 

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I had a treehouse.

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I had a vivid imagination, and I changed
my treehouse into a spaceship.

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I made all these dials and controls.

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I had circuit breakers
for switches that I found in the barn,

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and I was exploring space
in my imagination.

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The most important thing I did to get to
where I wanted to go in life,

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which was flying fighter jets
and eventually becoming an astronaut, 

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is I shared those desires with other people,
and it turns out,

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just like you don't
go to the Moon on your own.

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If you could, I would have done it
a long time ago in my treehouse as a kid.

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You have to go as a team.

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I think the biggest impediment to achieving
my goals was, of course, myself.

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And I think that's a common
human experience.

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There are many times where

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this little thing would get in my way,
and my immediate interpretation

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of that was, well,
now that goal’s out the window.

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You know, people must have lifted me
back up and in... 

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somewhere in the back of my head,
that persistence came through.

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And I think that's a common human
experience to doubt ourselves.

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I've come to this,

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I guess, realization that I believe
that we all have gifts to contribute,

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and the goal is to figure out
how to use your energy towards

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adding positively
to humanity's existence on this planet.

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And I love it when humanity sets
big goals, like sending humans

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to the surface of the Moon
with an eye to eventually going to Mars.

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Because when we do that,
we can bring together

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genius from not just even in one country,
but around the world.

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I've also learned
from my indigenous mentors

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that they refer to the Moon
as Grandmother Moon.

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So you've probably heard of Mother Earth
and his Grandmother Moon,

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because Grandmother Moon is responsible
for the water in their community.

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Just like the Moon moves the water
around the planet, affects the tides.

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And I think that's
a really beautiful thing for us

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as we go back to the Moon
to think about all the different cultures

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around the world
and how they view the Moon differently.

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And that's really neat because we
all share that same moon in the night sky.