Education

The not-for-profit Canadian Space Technology Advancement Group is once again organizing the Canadian International Rover Challenge (CIRC).

When the Diefenbaker government announced the cancellation of Canada’s Avro CF-105 Arrow in February 1959, few could have predicted the effect on the American space program.

A we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission it’s important to look back at the time of the Apollo program in the 60’s and early 70’s to better understand the motivations of the Apollo program and what was happening in the world at that time.

How would like to spend a year consulting the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) on how to inspire Canadian youth as part of the Junior Astronauts initiative?

This past school semester, Ryerson University engineering students found themselves battling school administration in an attempt to build their own rocket engine.

When astronaut David Saint-Jacques arrived at the Canadian Space Agency headquarters for the first time following his six month mission aboard the International Space Station, he received an enthusiastic welcome.

Fifty years after the Apollo 11 mission which saw the first humans to set foot on another planetary body, six Canadian astronauts will host six events across the country to commemorate the landing on the moon on July 20.

As rocketry teams from across Canada prepare for next weeks 2019 Spaceport America Cup, another competition, the BASE 11 Space Challenge has just wrapped up its Phase 1 Preliminary Design Review (PDR) which saw impressive results by Concordia University and the University of British Columbia rocketry teams.

Two days from now David Saint-Jacques will return to Earth after more than six months in space and setting a Canadian record for the longest duration mission. On June 19 he participated in his last on-orbit media event.

Recently Canadian Space Agency astronaut David Saint‑Jacques had an opportunity to speak with the students and staff of Kiluutaq School in the community of Umiujaq in northern Quebec where he used to practise medicine.