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MONTREAL – At age 13, Artash Nath is already taking on the big questions puzzling scientists – climate change, planetary atmospheres and asteroid collisions.

MONTREAL – NASA’s push to land people on the moon in 2024 is a stepping stone to a much larger goal – landing people on Mars.

MONTREAL – Space is not only an interdisciplinary business, but one that is in urgent need of artificial intelligence “translators” who can work across different fields, says the chair of Canada’s space advisory board.

This weeks SpaceQ podcast has two segments. The first is my short interview with Conservative Party MP Erin O’Toole from the AIAC’s town hall followed by a segment on the launch of Western University’s Institute for Earth and Space Exploration.

For Western University, and in particular Dr. Gordon Osinski, years of hard work have led to the creation of only the second Research Institute level organization at the university, the new Institute for Earth and Space Exploration.

At the Aerospace Industries Association of Canada (AIAC) final town hall in Toronto last week Conservative MP Erin O’Toole told SpaceQ that “he anticipates” a Conservative government “would” honour Canada’s commitment to NASA’s Lunar Gateway and Artemis program.

With the mantra of a whole of government approach at work, a team effort by several government departments is underway to organize a space-data partnering mission to the United Kingdom (UK) next March.

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

The Canadian Space Agency Tweeted yesterday that that the first Junior Astronaut activities are available for teachers, educators, parents and youth group leaders.

Ottawa will host the 11th joint meeting of the Planetary & Terrestrial Mining Sciences Symposium (PTMSS) and Space Resources Roundtable (SRR) next June.