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Jacques Lebrun. Claude Asselin, “Selon le professeur Jacques Lebrun ‘Les lunautes peuvent comme à la maison, se raser en caleçon.’” Photo-Journal, from 17 to 23 November 1969, 7.

Sing us a song, you’re the weatherman: Jacques Lebrun and the conquest of space

Rénald Fortier

As was said (typed?) by a somewhat reckless individual, namely moi, while it is true that working for an institution such as the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, in Ottawa, Ontario, can sometimes be difficult, it is also true that the resources and treasures it preserves are unmatched in this country. Yours truly has dug in these resources on many occasions over the past 3 decades. I will not do so today, my reading friend. You see, today’s topic has little to do with aviation. I know. I too

An drawing of students looking through a telescope and discussing different names for an exoplanet

Canada’s Name the Exoplanet Contest!

Jesse Rogerson, PhD

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Scientists have discovered thousands of planets orbiting stars other than the Sun, aka exoplanets. Most of those planets have boring names consisting of letters and numbers that keep track of the star catalogue in which they are listed. Take, for example, planet HD 136418b . The "HD" refers to the Henry Draper Catalogue, the "136418" means the planet orbits the 136,418th star in the catalogue, and the "b" refers to it being the first planet discovered around that star (they don't use "a" because

A cartoon image of an astronaut standing on the surface of Enceladus looking at a water geyser.

Sports & Gaming

Astronaut fantasies are part of my job description

Jesse Rogerson, PhD

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

As the Science Advisor for the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, I get to work on some really fun projects. Recently, I helped out with the science behind a space-themed video game we just released on the Nintendo Switch called StarBlox Inc (you didn’t know that museums made video games? We do! We’re cool like that...check out our games and apps ).

A composite image made up of three pictures

Earth & Environment

3 things you should know — November edition

Jesse Rogerson, PhD

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Meet Renée-Claude Goulet, Jesse Rogerson, and Michelle Campbell Mekarski. They are Ingenium’s science advisors, providing expert scientific advice on key subjects relating to our three museums — the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, and the Canada Science and Technology Museum. In this colourful monthly blog series, Ingenium’s science advisors offer up three quirky nuggets related to their areas of expertise. For the November edition, they took a closer

A poster for the French and Dutch language versions of the British science fiction film Moon Zero Two.

Social Science & Culture

The first Western movie set on the Moon: Moon Zero Two, Part 2

Rénald Fortier

Howdy again, my reading friend, and… I see a hand waving through the fog of space and time. You have a question? Yes, you are indeed correct. James Olson, the somewhat colourless American actor who played William H. “Bill” Kemp, the antihero of the British science fiction movie Moon Zero Two mentioned in the first part of this article, also starred in The Andromeda Strain , an American classic science fiction film first shown in March 1971. And yes, the Hungarian born British actress who played

A poster for the British science fiction film Moon Zero Two.

Social Science & Culture

The first western movie set on the Moon: Moon Zero Two, Part 1

Rénald Fortier

Howdy, my reading friend. How do you do? Yours truly has a bit of an oddball / incongruous movie for you this week. You see, Moon Zero Two was / is a British science fiction film whose premiere took place, you guessed it, in the month of October. Can you figure out in which year said premiere took place? Given the look of the poster, including the, err, scantily clad female characters, you presume that Moon Zero Two did not hit the silver screen in 1949 or 1959? Very good. Perhaps 1969, you say?

Five different moons of Saturn in one image

It’s your chance to name a moon of Saturn

Jesse Rogerson, PhD

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Normally, when a comet, asteroid, or moon is discovered in our Solar System, the discoverer gets to name the object. This time around, scientists are changing things up! In early October, scientists announced the discovery of 20 new moons in orbit around the planet Saturn. The team who found these new Saturnian satellites have created a Twitter contest, whereby anyone from around the world can suggest names for them. Want to try and name a moon of Saturn? Then check out this article.

A screenshot from the game, StarBlox Inc.

Space museum reaches for the stars with new Nintendo game

Two of the main actors of the Québec television series Kosmos 2001: Guy Ferron (on the left) and Percy Rodriguez. Anon., “de passionnantes aventures interplanétaires: ‘kosmos 2001’ ” La semaine à Radio-Canada, from 25 April to 1 May 1964, 32.

A thrilling, or slightly too abstract, television series, set against a Cold War background: Kosmos 2001

Rénald Fortier

Jó naput / hello, my reading friend. And yes, you are quite right in saying that the photograph at the beginning of this article did not appear in La semaine à Radio-Canada ¸ a weekly published in Montréal, Québec, in October 1959 or 1969. I appealed to it because it allowed me to talk about a Québec television series aimed at a young audience, one of the first televised science fiction series in Québec and Canada in fact, whose premiere took place in October 1959, 60 years ago. Produced by the

A composite image made up of three pictures: an interstellar comet, a pile of tomatoes, and green bins lining street.

Earth & Environment

3 things you should know — October edition

Jesse Rogerson, PhD

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Meet Renée-Claude Goulet, Jesse Rogerson, and Michelle Campbell Mekarski. These Ingenium employees are professional science communicators, and provide expert advice on key subjects relating to our three museums — the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, and the Canada Science and Technology Museum. In this new monthly blog series, Ingenium’s science communicators offer up three quirky nuggets related to their areas of expertise. For the October edition, they