Astronaut Andrew Feustel Joins the Canadian Space Mining Corporation

2009 - This was the fifth and final mission to service and repair the telescope. Here, astronauts John Grunsfeld and Andrew Feustel perform the first of five spacewalks to work on Hubble. Image credit: NASA.

Recently retired American/Canadian NASA Astronaut Dr. Andrew J. Feustel has joined the Canadian Space Mining Corporation as their Executive Vice President of Strategy.

It's a move that will certainly inspire some confidence in this ambitious small startup that has big designs related to the Moon and beyond.

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Boucher is an entrepreneur, writer, editor & publisher. He is the founder of SpaceQ Media Inc. and Executive Vice President, Content of SpaceNews. Boucher has 25+ years working in various roles in the space industry and a total of 30 years as a technology entrepreneur including creating Maple Square, Canada's first internet directory and search engine.