Missions to the moon and Mars and a new space-based telescope are in the works for 2021, say Ian Whittaker and Gareth Dorrian.

Chang'e 5 is the third Chinese spacecraft to land on the moon and the first to take off from it again.

The initiative, targeting companies that plan to send robots to mine lunar resources, is part of NASA's goal of setting "norms of behavior" in space and allowing private mining on the moon in ways that could help sustain future astronaut missions.

Perseverance, a six-wheeled robotic explorer, will blast off this summer to collect Martian samples for eventual return to Earth.

Western's Institute for Earth and Space Exploration won a bid to develop the panorama camera-style mount that will allow for 360-degree data collection.

Western University will be marking the International Day of Women and Girls in Science with an event on Feb. 11.

UBC researchers hope testing the effects of space radiation on yeast, they'll be able to protect future astronauts on long space missions.

Some Edmontonians celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing at a perhaps obvious place: the science centre.

William Carpentier. an Edmonton native, was the flight surgeon for the historical Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969 and appears in the Canadian special "Make It To The Moon," airing Sunday on Discovery and Discovery Science.

Mandla Maseko won an international competition to get a place in the Axe Apollo Space Academy in 2015.