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Close-up of a hand holding brown soil, a cosmic illustration of spaceships flying across colourful planets, a hiking trail that runs through a deciduous forest.

3 things you should know about soil biology, space tourism, and the healing power of nature

Astronaut Chris Hadfield, wearing a white spacesuit and helmet.

Social Science & Culture

7 tips from an astronaut on how to master remote work

The Repair Drone

Junior inventors aim to make life easier in space

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

As we celebrate World Space Week 2018, kids from across Canada have been busy thinking up creative ideas about how to improve the human experience in space. Last year, Little Inventors — a U.K.-based organization — launched an initiative called Little Inventors: Inventions for Space, in partnership with the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Canadian Space Agency. Kids across Canada were challenged to dream up ideas to make life easier — and more fun — in

The cygnus spacecraft approaches the International Space Station

The Cygnus Capsule on Approach to the ISS

Jesse Rogerson, PhD

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

On Wednesday April 19, 2017, Orbital ATK's 7th resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) launched from Cape Canaveral. The Cygnus cargo module was launched atop an Atlas V rocket with over 7600 lbs of supplies and science equipment. Three days later, the module got close enough to the ISS for European Space Agency's (ESA) Thomas Presquet to take this image of the Cygnus capsule on approach. Just a bit later, Presquet and ISS Commader Peggy Whitson used CanadArm to secure the

NASA Astronaut Peggy Whitson floating in the Cupola

Peggy Whitson: the USA Astronaut with the Most Flight Hours