My special guest this week on the SpaceQ podcast is William “Mac” Evans a thirty year veteran of the Canadian space program and a member of the Order of Canada.

What happens when a comic comes to town and wants to talk about launching rockets? The folks of Canso, Nova Scotia found out.

The Canadian Space Agency has released a short video of the 10 years of preparation by astronaut David Saint-Jacques for his six month mission to the International Space Station (ISS).

NASA has done it again. This time the InSight lander has successfully touched down on Mars and will start what is expected to be a two year mission.

The Hill Times, the Ottawa based newspaper that covers all things politics, has published its annual Aerospace Briefing, along with a full page ad from the Don’t Let Go Canada Coalition.

You can add the Earth Observation (EO) community to the list of space communities that need a new long term plan.

While the Canadian government has not publicly committed to the long-term NASA led Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway program, it is preparing the way, and sources inform SpaceQ that Canada is likely to sign-on.

In this weeks SpaceQ podcast I speak with freelance journalist Elizabeth Howell about last weeks Canadian Aerospace Summit and on David Saint-Jacques’ upcoming mission to the International Space Station.

Helios Wire and exactEarth will each have a small satellite launched on the upcoming SpaceX Falcon 9 launch of the Spaceflight SSO-A rideshare mission scheduled for no earlier than Nov. 27.

Expedition 58 astronaut David Saint-Jacques along with his crewmates, Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos and Flight Engineers Anne McClain of NASA, have left Moscow for the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in preparation for their December 3 launch.