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Astronauts Say Happy Canada Day!

1 Jul , 2014 by Nancy Atkinson

On 1 July, Canadians celebrate Canada Day, which honors the day the nation was officially born when the Constitution Act united three colonies into a single country. Astronauts both past and present send their greetings today: ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst took this image, above, from the International Space Station and sent the message from space: […]

Robots And Astronauts Feature In First Glimpse of Canada’s New Space Policy

7 Feb , 2014 by Elizabeth Howell

About six years ago, the Canadarm — Canada’s iconic robotic arm used in space — was almost sold to a company in the United States, along with other space technology from MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates. The Canadian government blocked the sale and swiftly came out with a promise: a space policy to better support Canada’s industry. […]

Weekly Space Hangout – May. 3, 2013

4 May , 2013 by Fraser Cain Video

Another busy episode of the Weekly Space Hangout, with more than a dozen space stories covered by a collection of space journalists. This week’s panel included Alan Boyle, Dr. Nicole Gugliucci, Amy Shira Teitel, David Dickinson, Dr. Matthew Francis, and Jason Major. Hosted by Fraser Cain. We discussed: The most powerful gamma ray burst… ever […]

Amazing Map Is Made Up Of Everyone in the U.S. and Canada

14 Jan , 2013 by Jason Major

Zoomable map of the US and Canada pinpoints everyone with a dot. (Credit: Brandon Martin-Anderson/Census Dotmap) Now this is something different: an interactive and zoomable map of the United States and Canada, made not from political boundaries or geographic landforms but rather of tiny dots — 341,817, 095 of them, to be exact — […]

Captain Kirk Tweets the Space Station

4 Jan , 2013 by Jason Major

Chris Hadfield’s response to William Shatner got quite a bit of attention on Twitter You know that you’re living in a very special point in time when you can watch a man who became famous playing a starship captain on television send a tweet to a man who’s actually working in a spaceship orbiting the […]

Canada Unveils its Contributions to the JWST

25 Jul , 2012 by Jason Major

Today Canada’s Minister of Industry Christian Paradis unveiled the technologies that comprise Canada’s contribution to the James Webb Space Telescope, a next-generation infrared observatory that’s seen as the successor to Hubble. CSA will provide JWST with a two-in-one instrument: a Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS) Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS). Both were designed, built and […]

A Continent Ablaze in Auroral and Manmade Light

12 Feb , 2012 by Ken Kremer

Video Caption: Up the East Coast of North America. Credit: NASA The North American continent is literally set ablaze in a confluence of Auroral and Manmade light captured in spectacular new videos snapped by the astronauts serving aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The Expedition 30 crew has recently filmed lengthy sequences of images that […]

Cities at Night Panorama of Millions of US East Coast Earthlings

4 Feb , 2012 by Ken Kremer

[/caption] Do you live here? Tens of millions of Earthlings live and work in the bustling and seemingly intertwined American mega-metropolis of the Philadelphia-New York City-Boston corridor (bottom-center splotch) captured in this stunning “Cities at Night” panorama of the East Coast of the United States along the Atlantic seaboard (image above). Look northward and you’ll […]

Canada Looks to the Future in Space

31 Jan , 2012 by Paul Scott Anderson

[/caption] When it comes to space, the first thing most people think of is NASA. Or Russia and the European Space Agency, or even more recently, countries like China and Japan. In the public eye, Canada has tended to be a bit farther down on the list. There is the Canadian Space Agency, but it […]

Toronto Teens Launch “Lego Man in Space”

29 Jan , 2012 by Ken Kremer

[/caption] Updated:Jan. 30 Two teens from Toronto,Canada have launched “Lego Man in Space” using a helium filled weather balloon and captured stunning video of the miniature toy figure back dropped by the beautiful curvature of Earth and the desolate blackness of space that’s become a worldwide YouTube sensation – over 2 million hits ! 17 […]

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