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Welcome to the Terranauts first episode of Season 2. On this episode we talk to Colleen Merchant who worked on the international team that designed and built the Space Station and the international flight control team that continues to support it on orbit today.

Space has a strange position in modern gaming. Sure, many games are based on science-fiction settings, featuring spaceships blasting each other with lasers. SpaceQ featured Canada’s own Mass Effect series, where players jet from planet to planet in a growing war against ancient alien robots, as only one of countless examples.

The universe will come to end, right? That’s a pretty heavy topic and can be very complicated to explain. Fear not though, today you can learn what the end of the universe means, astrophyically speaking, in easy to understand language.

Virgin Galactic unveiled the slick cabin interior of its space tourist and suborbital research spaceship yesterday. For the "hundreds and thousands" who will first experience flying briefly to space, the experience will be priceless. Of course it's also expensive at over US$250K a ticket for tourists. But wait, what about the rest of us? This page is for subscribers only. Already a subscriber? Log in. …

Comet NEOWISE took astronomers somewhat by surprise. You see, comets can be very finicky with respect to how bright they get. And because the comet became bright enough for the public to see, well, it’s a rare treat. 

The virtual month long Moon Festival got underway on July 5th with a reading of a short story titled Full Moon Mall by famed author Margaret Atwood.

It’s hard to believe that we’ve come to an end of Season 1 of Terranauts. Iain shares his thoughts including what he learned from his guests and in creating a podcast for the first time.

In this episode of Terranauts, Iain Christie concludes the history of rocket science as part of a new series, a Terranauts guide to leaving the planet.

His love for space was so strong that he joked that when he was interviewed to be one of the first people at a new space organization, that he was willing to work for free.

Celebrated author Margaret Atwood will unveil a new Moon themed story at the Canadian Moon Festival this summer. The festival is normally held in in London, United Kingdom, but will be entirely digital this year.