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This week NASA released its budget amendment to account for the Trump administration’s desire to accelerate the country’s plan to land humans on the moon in 2024 instead of 2018. The new plan has created problems for NASA’s international partners who are scrambling to see what it means for them. Canada is no exception.

NASA revealed in teleconference with media last night that it had formally named its return to the moon program, Artemis. In Greek mythology, Artemis was the twin sister of Apollo. More importantly for the program, NASA sent Congress its budget amendment request for the fiscal year 2020.

Welcome back to the third and final installment of SpaceQ’s “blockchain and space” series. In this installment we look at the some of the companies looking to bring blockchain technology to space.

There was some irony in yesterday’s announcement by Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos that his company was ready to assist NASA in having Americans return to the moon’s surface by 2024.

In April the Trump administration surprised everyone by announcing that it was directing NASA to land American astronauts on the moon within five years.

Canada’s robotic suite of tools on the International Space Station (ISS) lead by Dextre removed a failed power switch earlier this morning restoring full power to the US portion of the ISS.

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) awarded another four contracts valued at $700,000 under the Flights and Fieldwork for the Advancement of Science and Technology (FAST) program, this time for research related to a possible future moon rover.

What has the International Space Station (ISS) contributed to humanity since its inception? That’s the question that gets answered in a new book published by NASA.

At approximately 8:05 a.m. EDT April 8 David Saint-Jacques will enter the International Space Station Quest airlock and shortly thereafter begin his first spacewalk, something he’s wanted to do since he first dreamed of going into space.

Before the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in orbit around asteroid Bennu can take a sample from the surface it needs to be mapped. That’s where Canada’s OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter (OLA) comes in.