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Canada is targeting the moon as its next step for human exploration. While this is not a new objective more details are available after NASA hosted the Human Exploration Workshop as part of the Global Exploration Roadmap.
Read More »Canada's Fledging Rover Program Is Facing A Rocky Future
The following article is from the latest issue of Space Quarterly magazine, Canadian edition. It is one of several which focuses on the Canadian space program. We hope you enjoy this free article and consider subscribing to Canada’s space magazine.
Read More »Satellite Servicing Helps Santa
This new video titled “Santa’s Little Detour” posted on the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) YouTube channel combines both holiday spirit and a marketing message, a dual message.
Read More »NASA Orion Crew Vehicle: From Factory to Flight
According to NASA they are making steady progress on building the Orion spacecraft which will take astronauts deeper into space than ever before. Presented here is the latest achievements and milestones as Orion gets ready for its first orbital test flight in 2014.
Read More »Expedition 30 Launches To The Space Station
Expedition 30 Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko, NASA Flight Engineer Don Petit and European Space Agency Flight Engineer Andre Kuipers were launched on the Russian aboard their Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft at 13:16 UTC (8:16 a.m. EST) Wednesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Read More »Take a Virtual Sleigh Ride Over the Real Landscapes of Mars
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab put together this great video of real landscapes on Mars with imagery from the HiRISE camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter accompanied by some holiday music.
Read More »Comet Lovejoy Survives Brush with the Sun
After grazing the Sun’s corona at a distance of 120,000 km from the Sun’s surface Comet Lovejoy emerged on the other side of the Sun still intact. Images supplied by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.
Read More »University of Western Ontario Astronomers Capture Bright Fireball on Video
Just after 6:00 pm last Monday, a bright fireball shot across the sky, visible from Hamilton to Peterborough. A system of video cameras set up by astronomers captured video of the event which may make it possible to recover meteorite fragments.
Read More »Paul Allen Announces Revolution in Space Transportation Stratolaunch System
Entrepreneur and philanthropist Paul G. Allen announced today that he and aerospace pioneer Burt Rutan have reunited to develop the next generation of space travel. Allen and Rutan, whose SpaceShipOne was the first privately-funded, manned rocket ship to fly beyond earth’s atmosphere, are developing a revolutionary approach to space transportation: an air-launch system to provide orbital access to space with greater safety, cost-effectiveness and flexibility.
Read More »NASA's Kepler's Telescope Finds First Planet Found in Habitable Zone of a Sun-Like Star
NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the “habitable zone,” the region where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface. Kepler also has discovered more than 1,000 new planet candidates, nearly doubling its previously known count.
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