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In this weeks Terranauts podcast, host Iain Christie takes you on a journey through Johnson Space Center’s Mission Control Center during the 90’s with the first part of a new series, Tales from Mission Control.

NASA’s Down to Earth – Shining Oasis series has a new feature with David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency.

Toronto hasn’t had a standalone planetarium since the McLaughlin Planetarium closed its doors in 1995. That could change if a group of influential local people can sway politicians, corporations and philanthropic donors.

We’ve got something special for you this week on the Terranauts podcast, a live recording of the Gala dinner speech at the recent Canadian Space Summit.

The inaugural Terranauts podcast is now available with host Iain Christie interviewing GHGSat founder and president Stephane Germain.

What you think you know about the history of private investment in space is probably all wrong.

In this lecture at the Perimeter Institute, Director Neil Turok “explores a universe of ideas and shares his optimism about the positive power of human ingenuity.”

Talks at Google is a regular feature that according to Google “brings the world’s most influential thinkers, creators, makers and doers all in one place.” This talk features Astrophysicist Adam Frank.

It’s still hard to spot the Canadarm among the warplanes at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum (CASM), but director-general Chris Kitzan says this will change shortly.

People were surprised to hear that Amazon is willing to spend a billion dollars to secure the rights to a streaming adaptation of Cixin Liu’s The Three Body Problem. Yes, Amazon is willing and able to pay big dollars for television adaptations—they’re already working on a massive Lord of the Rings prequel series. But a billion dollars? For this series? It won a Hugo, but …