Space Race

• Billionaire space race: Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson reaches the stars

  It's the company's fourth trip to the edge of space. The first successful launch took place in 2018 -- following two failures, both of which suffered casualties.

  World

  Jul 11, 2021
  
• Canadian Space Agency set to get first female president as space race gains steam

  'It's a new era,' said president Lisa Campbell on Space X, private partnerships and no rules.

  Canada

  Sep 3, 2020
  
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• Volunteers hope Cold War observatory and camera can put Alberta hamlet back on the map

  A group of dedicated volunteers at the Newbrook Historical Society in Alberta is hard at work refurbishing an observatory and meteor camera from the 1950s.

  Science

  Jun 25, 2019
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• India says it shot down a fast-moving satellite, declares itself a ‘space power’

  India successfully test-fired an anti-satellite weapon on Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in an unexpected announcement just weeks before a general election.

  World

  Mar 27, 2019
• Russia Rising, part 6: Private space race has power to change ‘the whole landscape,’ says Chris Hadfield

  On the sixth episode of 'Russia Rising,' we’ll boldly go where no podcast has gone before.

  Canada

  Mar 4, 2019
• U.S. to send people to Mars by 2030s: Barack Obama

  Americans may not be returning to the moon, but they will head to Mars very soon, U.S. president Barack Obama said in a special op-ed for CNN.

  Science

  Oct 11, 2016
• The new space race: Is it safe in the hands of private companies?

  With the explosion of Orbital Science's Antares rocket and the death of a Virgin Galactic test pilot last week, many are questioning the safety of private enterprise in the race to space.

  Science

  Nov 4, 2014