Florida’s Space Coast is 3-2-1 Relax!

 While Ottawa’s mayor is working hard to bring more direct flights to Ottawa, one carrier flies nonstop to sunny Florida, meaning you can escape landlocked Ottawa for the sand and surf of the sunshine state in three and a half hours. Our flight to Orlando was filled with vacationers excitedly

NASA Perseveres on Mars

 The Mars Perseverance rover has finally landed on Mars, after years of planning and months of travel, laying the groundwork for years of scientific discoveries and future missions. The rover, which will attempt to study Mars to find the chemicals that provide evidence that life once lived there, is a

Introducing The Shad Pad — an innovative approach to fighting gender inequality

 Above: One winning team of Shad2020's on-line program will build and fly their experiment on a future flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket. When thinking about gender equality, one rarely thinks of space exploration, let alone menstruation in space. One group of Canadian students looked to help change this with

SpaceX and the future of human spaceflight at NASA

 Above: The reusable Crew Dragon docking with the Internation Space Station, May 31, 2020. Credit: NASA via YouTube NASA's human spaceflight program is being widely praised this week, and deservedly so: a reusable spacecraft called Crew Dragon has launched humans to space, the first new rocket to do so since the Space

Houston, We Have the Perfect Family Getaway

 All photos by Anna Jonas Houston is hardly a traditional vacation destination. Sun, sand and sea are replaced by sidewalks and skyscrapers. But what makes Houston a great place for your family’s next getaway isn’t the opportunity to get away from it all – it’s the chance to get right

3D Printing the Future

 Photo credit: www.decisionsdurables.com It has been over a year since I talked about 3D printers on this blog, but the innovators who are focusing on this technology have been far from idle. Progress is constantly being made in this field and some recent headlines have perfectly highlighted some of the

Putting the “Science” in “Science Fiction” – Space Travel 2: Plasma Engine

 In my previous blog, I wrote about the ion engine, one of the main avenues of research into alternative methods of space flight. There has been a great deal of research into ion engines, but scientists are examining other technologies that would allow “warp drive” interplanetary and interstellar travel. One