Artemis II Crew Completes Canada Tour at Place des Arts, Montreal (Day 3 — CCMM/CSA Event)

The Artemis II crew concluded their three-city Canadian tour on May 15, 2026 with a ticketed public talk at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Place des Arts in downtown Montreal, Quebec. The event — organized jointly by the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal (CCMM) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) — ran from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM EDT (doors opened at 9:15 AM), with tickets priced at $110 CAD (tax included). Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specialist Christina Koch, and Canadian Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen were joined by CSA Capcom Jenni Gibbons. The Montreal stop completed the crew's three-city Canadian itinerary: Ottawa (May 13 — meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney, Canadian Museum of Nature, sold-out National Arts Centre 'Meet the Crew' event), Saint-Hubert/CSA Headquarters (May 14 — bilingual English/French public virtual event on CSA YouTube and Facebook), and Montreal/Place des Arts (May 15). The Canada tour was anchored by Jeremy Hansen, who on April 6, 2026 at 1:56 PM EDT became the first non-American on a lunar trajectory in history, reaching 252,706 miles from Earth during Artemis II. Day 35 post-splashdown (April 10, 2026). With the Canadian tour concluded, the crew returns to the United States. SpaceX IFT-12 (Starship V3 debut — Booster 19 + Ship 39) remains NET May 19 at 5:30 PM CDT with no new slips reported.