Terranauts

Cerys Goodall and Hugh Scholey are two pretty unlikely Terranauts. As two public relations professionals the last thing they ever thought they would end up doing was going to space. But that's what they did. In this episode of Terranauts we'll hear their stories and talk about how going to space changes your perspective, even if you never leave the ground. The Show Like the show? Support the show:...

Michael Lyon had a passion for space and when the opportunity to join Space Adventures came a long it was the beginning of several New Space businesses Michael would be involved in. The Show Like the show? Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=4270364 Email your thoughts, comments, and questions to: podcast AT spaceq.ca Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/canadainspace Subscri...

What started as an internship, and could have been a very short career, instead led Ewan Reid to creating his own startup, Mission Control Space Services. In this weeks Terranauts podcast, Iain Christie talks to Ewan Reid the CEO of Mission Control Space Services who started as an intern at Neptec, a company Iain eventually led. The Show Like the show? Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/beP...

In this episode of Terranauts we feature Dr. Gordon Osinski, a professor at Western University and the director of the Institute for Earth and Space Exploration. Dr. Gordon Osinski is teaching the next generation of space explorers, which includes graduates students at Western University, while at the same time training them and astronauts who will one day explore the moon, and quite possibly Mars...

Happy New Year and welcome to another episode of Terranauts where we interview people that go to space all the time, without ever leaving the planet.  Today we're going international with Daniel Schulten who started his career in the Netherlands and ended up moving to Canada to work on projects like the RADARSAT Constellation Mission. Today he leads MDA's Launchpad initiative which aims to cr...

This week, host Iain Christie, recounts the story of when he realized what it meant to be what he now calls a Terranaut. The Show Like the show? Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=4270364 Email your thoughts, comments, and questions to: podcast AT spaceq.ca Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/canadainspace Subscribe to the SpaceQ Short Cuts Newsletter: https://eepurl.com/cT...

Today we’ve got something special for you. Iain Christie, the host of Terranauts, was the Gala speaker at the recent Canadian Space Summit. His talk was titled, Launch Day. This is the live recording of that speech. As Iain puts it, Launch Day is a quintessentially Terranaut experience, and this is his Launch Day story. But as you’ll hear, we want to hear about your Launch Day story. If we get eno...

This week on the Terranauts podcast we have a very special guest, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield. Hadfield, as a former astronaut, provides his perspective on Terranauts and as you'll hear, now that he's a retired astronaut, he's become a Terranaut himself. The stories you'll hear today are not your typical astronaut stories, so listen in. The Show Like the show? Support the show: https://www.p...

In the last episode we had a bit of history lesson from Mac Evans about the beginnings of Canada's current space program.  We talked about the creation of the Canadian Space Agency and the negotiation of the international treaty for what eventually became the International Space Station.  Today's guest Bill Mackey is going to help us continue that story and learn about the building of bo...

Last week on the Terranauts podcast we talked about what it takes to build your own satellite.  This week we think a little bigger and talk about what it takes to build a space program. Our guest this week is Mac Evans, a former president of the Canadian Space Agency and a current member of Canada's Space Advisory Board.  Mac is also one of the architects of Canada's space program. ...

When most people think about space they think of astronauts, names like Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Chris Hadfield are familiar to an awful lot of people. But for every astronaut that makes it to space there are legions of smart, dedicated, and interesting people who plan, design, build and operate the mission, spacecraft and instruments that make up the space program. Terranauts is about tho...