January 2021
Medical professionals and long-duration spaceflight
... and from 29 October to 7 November 1998. Bob Thirsk, a family physician and astronaut of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), completed two spaceflights: as a payload specialist from 20 June to 7 July 1996 and as a mission engineer from 27-29 May 2009...
January 2023
Producing food in space
... created a protein that can be made ‘out of thin air’ In 2021, NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) organised the Deep Space Food Challenge, which seeks new space food solutions. Finnish company Solar...
September 2023
The Institute of Biomedical Problems - Sixty years of contributing to the development of space biomedicine
... and technical collaboration. The Institute’s scientists work under contracts with ESA, JAXA (Japan), CNES (France), CSA (Canada), and the space agencies of Italy, the Republic of Korea and Malaysia, with firms and organisations...
April 2024
The promise of solar energy for sustainable development and space exploration
... Major Disasters initiated by ESA, the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), following the UNISPACE III conference in 1999. It represents a worldwide collaboration, through which satellite data are made...
October 2025
What future for UK human spaceflight?
.... The current Artemis programme (as of July 2025) is: Artemis I – uncrewed (completed 2022); Artemis II – three NASA astronauts, one CSA Canadian (2026); Artemis III – first lunar landing; four NASA astronauts (2027); Artemis IV – NASA crew, plus...
22 November 2015
James Webb Space Telescope prepped to receive gold-coated primary mirror segments
... 2018, JWST is a collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). Some of the telescopes mirrors will be housed on “wings”, described as the side portions of the backplane structure of the...
