Canada and NASA strike agreement on Artemis Gateway; SLS will fly first...
Minister Navdeep Bains announced today that two Canadian astronauts will fly on two crewed Artemis flights starting with the first astronaut on NASA’s Artemis II mission, the first crewed flight around...
View ArticleNASA and the CSA are launching a challenge seeking new food system technologies
Consuming food aboard the International Space Station (ISS) can be a rather tricky task, but luckily, NASA can regularly send more food up. However, when future missions begin calling for astronauts to...
View ArticleDebris struck International Space Station’s robotic arm, Station and arm...
During a routine inspection on May 12th, astronauts noticed damage to one of Canadarm2’s boom segments. The damage, limited to a thermal blanket and part of the arms boom, is not expected to limit the...
View ArticleCould Tesla’s robot be SpaceX’s Robonaut? It wouldn’t be the first humanoid...
Last week Tesla pulled a “One more thing” and announced they are working on an autonomous robot powered by their Full Self Driving neural net. Many have questioned the companies choice but there could...
View ArticleCanadian Space Agency chimes in on Facebook outage
Today Facebook and its accompanying apps have experienced a global outage leaving users unable to use their services. The Canadian Space Agency joined in on poking fun at Facebook with a meme about the...
View ArticleMerry Christmas and happy James Webb Space Telescope launch day!
This morning, the spaceflight and science communities held their breath as Arianespace launched the long-awaited James Webb Space Telescope. But, while the launch is now done, Webb has a long trip to...
View ArticleJames Webb Christmas launch, SpaceX finishes the year & more top stories
While the week of Christmas was a slow one, there were two highly anticipated launches. Check out this week’s top stories below. more…
View ArticleHow to track James Webb Space Telescope, mission timeline
Currently, more than 35,000 miles away, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is cruising through space on the way to its 1 million mile parking spot above the Earth. It will take the space telescope...
View ArticleRussia states it will end cooperation on the ISS ‘in the near future’ unless...
In statements made on Twitter and Telegram, Roscosmos Director-General Dmitry Rogozin responds to NASA, CSA, and ESA not promising they will lift sanctions on Russia due to its invasion of Ukraine. The...
View ArticleWhat we know about the targets of the James Webb Space Telescope’s first images
The time is near. After launching on Christmas Day, the first full-color images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will be released tonight and tomorrow. Here is what we know so far about the first...
View ArticleJames Webb telescope releases newest color image of The Cartwheel galaxy
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has already blown the minds of humans across the globe with its original set of color images. Now Webb has a new image, one of the chaotic Cartwheel galaxy. more…
View ArticleChris Hadfield’s ‘Space Oddity’ cover, shot on the ISS, released to the world...
Ten years ago today, Astronaut Chris Hadfield released a cover of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity,” entirely filmed aboard the International Space Station. He released the song the same day he relinquished...
View ArticleThe global alliance pioneering NASA’s Lunar Gateway
NASA’s Lunar Gateway program represents a pivotal initiative under the agency’s leadership, aimed at facilitating sustainable human and robotic exploration of the Moon and Mars. This program is...
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