Is Canada’s space program slipping out of orbit?
Recent feel-good news masks shrinking budgets and a funding approach that researchers say discourages ’science for science’s sake’
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International Space Station
One giant leap for art: The sculpture that’s headed to the Moon
The Vitae Project wouldn’t be the first piece of art on the moon. But if everything goes right, it may be its most ambitiously beautiful.
’Here I am.’ The story of a stunning shot in the dark
How an amateur photographer captured an elusive shot of the International Space Station against the Moon
There is peace in space. But will earthly conflicts end it?
U.S.-Russia relations continue to deteriorate. And the International Space Station’s survival is at stake.
One giant peek into mankind: What’s inside an astronaut?
A groundbreaking genetic study of twin NASA astronauts Mark and Scott Kelly may teach us as much about the human body as about space
Boeing and SpaceX to ferry astronauts to space station
The two winners have won contracts to deliver U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station starting in 2017
Chris Hadfield: Canada’s man in space
His tweets captivated millions, and made a boy from Sarnia, Ont., the most famous astronaut alive
Chris Hadfield: Earth-bound
In 2012, Hadfield was denied medical clearance to go to space. He recounts the politics and the chaos that followed.
Chris Hadfield divulges details of dispute that almost kept him from space
’The secrecy and paternalism really bothered me’
An excerpt from Chris Hadfield’s ’An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth’
Filming the David Bowie video was fun. Then came the biggest crisis of Hadfield’s career.