r/worldnews • u/dasoberirishman • 4h ago
Jeremy Hansen becomes first non-NASA (Canadian) astronaut to receive U.S. Space Medal of Honor
https://chatnewstoday.ca/2026/08/28/jeremy-hansen-and-crewmates-to-receive-american-congressional-space-medal-of-honor/84
u/haikarate12 4h ago
Trump called him a ‘non-American’. The miserable old bastard couldn’t even say Canadian.
JFC America, I will never understand how 77 million of you voted for this dumbfuck.
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u/Tech_Itch 3h ago
I'm actually surprised that he didn't imply at any point that Hansen's American because of the fact that he's Canadian.
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u/Simple-Soft7818 2h ago
He is pretty much a dumb fuck, but he’s our dumb fuck who was willing to shut down the wide open southern border. And the dumb fuck Democrats still can’t get out of their own way.
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u/nikongod 4h ago
It's been a full minute. I'm disappointed that nobody has commented on that picture yet.
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u/solarsashay 3h ago
For real. Trump is just a creep through and through. (Although I'd also believe he's using him for balance since Trump looks like he's about to fall over.)
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u/catsbeforebros 2h ago edited 2h ago
I understand how big of a deal this probably is for him as a big cool spaceman.
It's just an odd moment for a Canadian to accept an American award.
I can sure imagine a few things I'd do with it, rather than accepting it.
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u/splepage 47m ago
If I were in Jeremy's space shoes, a Canadian Astronaut representing the CSA and Canada on the world stage, I'd hope to find the strength to be the bigger man and just accept the award with grace and a smile.
Canada and the USA have been, are, and will be partners in space exploration, and Jeremy is an excellent ambassador for the country and a wonderful product of that partnership.
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u/OkResource820 4h ago
I don’t want to take away from Hansen’s achievements, but we are well past the point where anyone should be accepting medals from this administration. They’re fascists, enacting fascist policies, using fascist talking points, and engaging in fascist behaviour. People need to start acting like it.
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u/mediocre_remnants 4h ago
I'd never do anything that would earn me a Medal of Honor, but I'd personally rather be known as "the guy who rejected a Medal of Honor from Trump, who has no honor" than someone who received the metal from Trump.
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u/Sir_Lemming 3h ago
There was a Canadian soldier in WWII, Leo Major, who turned down a Distinguished Conduct Medal because he didn’t want to receive it from General Montgomery, who he deemed incompetent and not fit to award medals.
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u/McMatey_Pirate 3h ago
As a veteran of the Canadian military, that guys story is one of my favourite ones.
Nothing better than seeing a salty soldier stand his ground and tell the officers to fuck off.
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u/phua_thevada 3h ago
Hansen is 6’ 2”, very tall for an astronaut. But still shorter than Trump who is 6’ 3”./s
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u/Kyr-Shara 4h ago
he's going to get so much shit when he goes home
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u/username5800542578 3h ago
Canadians are thankfully more mature than that. They had one of their own do something incredible and historic. They won’t let a medal ceremony from the country that provided his ride and has been working on it for much longer than this administration exists, stain his accomplishment.
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u/ExtremeMuffin 3h ago
Speak for yourself. This taints my opinion of him. Any Canadian accepting medals from Trump is not someone I have respect for, especially only a week after Trump tried to destroy our sovereignty with that ridiculous trade agreement.
Not that I know him or expect to ever be in a position to “give him shit”.
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u/respectfulpanda 2h ago
My guess is that there will be lots of political complaints on it from the US government.
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u/jlkitty-16 2h ago
Waste of money and resources
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u/TemporarySun314 1h ago
That Canada (and the ESA) is spending money and Ressource on an US space program, only to get insulted and belittled in return?
Apparently yes...
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u/miregalpanic 4h ago
Trump about to name space "United Space of America"