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The crew of Expedition 34 completed their training in Star City on November 27.
Read More »Emerging Concepts of Habitability on Mars
Jack Mustard of Brown University discusses emerging concepts of habitability on Mars at the 2012 Canadian Space Summit.
Read More »The Mars Methane Analogue Mission
Dr. Ed Cloutis of the University of Winnipeg discusses at the 2012 Canadian Space Summit the experience gained and new science results from the Mars methane analogue mission conducted in an abandoned asbestos mine in Quebec.
Read More »NASA Preflight Interview with Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield
NASA has released a lengthy and good preflight interview with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield who is scheduled for launch to the International Space Station on December 19th. He’ll first serve as Expedition 34 flight engineer and then transition to Expedition 35 commander.
Read More »An Overview of Canada’s Participation in the OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission
Dr. Ed Cloutis of the University of Manitoba, one of the scientific investigators, provides us with an overview of the OSIRIS-REx mission which will visit and sample asteroid 1999 RQ36.
Read More »Will the World End in 2012? The Astronomical Evidence
Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell gave the Helen Sawyer Hogg Lecture at the RASC General Assembly on June 30, 2012, entitled “Will the world end in 2012? The astronomical evidence”. Burnell is a British astrophysicist who discovered the first radio pulsars with her then thesis supervisor Antony Hewish.
Read More »Chris Hadfield Trains at the European Astronaut Centre
Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Chris Hadfield is at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany to train on a Columbus module mock-up. Hadfield will be a part of Expedition 34/35, a long-duration mission on board the International Space Station that launches in December 2012.
Read More »Mars Exploration Atlas Released by Western University Cartographer
Cambridge University Press has released a new book, The International Atlas of Mars Exploration – The First Five Decades: 1953 to 2003, by Western University cartographer Philip J. Stooke. It is the second exploration atlas Stooke has created having previously released the popular International Atlas of Lunar Exploration.
Read More »Canadian Scientists Offered Opportunity to Participate with European Mission to Jupiter
The European Space Agency (ESA) has offered international scientists – including Canadians – the opportunity to propose scientific payloads for the JUICE (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) mission. The deadline for submission is October 15, 2012.
Read More »ISS Expedition 34/35 Crew News Conference
A news conference with the International Space Station crew of Expedition 34/35 consisting of Tom Marshburn (USA), Roman Romanenko (Russia) and Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield. They are scheduled to launch on a Soyuz rocket from Kazakhstan on December 5th.
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