On December 4, 2019, Jamie Sevigny, project management engineer at the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), will present the Junior Astronauts campaign to the media and answer their questions during a virtual conference.
On November 27, Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Joshua Kutryk will give a virtual presentation to 350 students and their teachers. He will encourage them to participate in the Junior Astronauts campaign while talking about his job as an astronaut.
On November 21, as part of the Junior Astronauts campaign, Danielle Cormier, Mission Controller at the Canadian Space Agency Robotics Mission Control Centre, will challenge some 230 young Canadians to discover what it takes to become an astronaut. She will also talk about the wide range of career opportunities in the space sector and answer students' questions.
On November 21, 2019, almost a year after he launched to space, Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut David Saint-Jacques will be back in Ottawa, at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum.
On November 14, Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jenni Sidey-Gibbons will give a virtual presentation to almost 500 students and their teachers, during which she will encourage them to participate in the Junior Astronauts campaign. She will also talk about her experience during the CSA's astronaut recruitment campaign and about the training she received afterwards.
The Canadian Space Agency's Junior Astronauts campaign is in full swing! Introduced for the 2019–2020 school year, the campaign allows young Canadians in grades 6 to 9 to put their knowledge and skills to the test – and to discover what it takes to become an astronaut.
On November 6, Miriam Micael, Project Management Engineer at the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), will invite nearly 190 students and their teachers to participate in the Junior Astronauts campaign, during a virtual conference.
On November 1, 2019, Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jenni Sidey-Gibbons will be in Alberta to invite youth and educators to participate in the CSA's Junior Astronauts campaign.
The Canadian Space Agency and the University of Calgary, along with other partners, announced that they will develop Canada's contribution to the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) mission. The mission is a collaboration between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) to study space weather, the phenomenon that causes the northern lights but can also cause disruptions and damage to technology.