Young Canadian Space Club
11 Eastside Street Uxbridge, ON, Canada

On May 26, 2 - 4PM at Uxbridge Trinity United Church, Young Canadian Space Club Mission #4 will feature Brian Ewenson . Brian is an Aerospace Educator who has trained astronauts and flown eight experiments aboard the Space Shuttle and International Space Station. He has presented across the United States, Canada and beyond to more than 250,000 people. He is originally from Canada and holds dual citizenship with the United States. Brian has led the Calgary Aerospace Museum, C...hallenger Learning Center of the Southwest, Pima Air and Space Museum and Spaceport Sheboygan, located in Wisconsin. He is a former employee of the Canadian Space Agency, Lockheed Martin and NASA.

#OTD November 18, 1923 Astronaut Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. was born. Rear Admiral Shepard was one of the Mercury astronauts named by NASA in April 1959, and he ...holds the distinction of being the first American to journey into space. On May 5, 1961, in the Freedom 7 spacecraft, he was launched by a Redstone vehicle on a ballistic trajectory suborbital flight, a flight which carried him to an altitude of 116 statute miles and to a landing point 302 statute miles down the Atlantic Missile Range. In 1963, he was designated Chief of the Astronaut Office with responsibility for monitoring the coordination, scheduling, and control over all activities involving NASA astronauts. Shepard made his second space flight as spacecraft commander on Apollo 14, January 31 - February 9, 1971. He was accompanied on man's third lunar landing mission by Stuart A. Roosa, command module pilot, and Edgar D. Mitchell, lunar module pilot. Shepard has logged a total of 216 hours and 57 minutes in space, of which 9 hours and 17 minutes were spent in lunar surface EVA. He died on July 21, 1998.

Welcome aboard the ISS to the crew of the Crew Dragon Résilience (Crew 1). Not forgetting Baby Yoda! NASA

Only 100 days left until NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover lands on Mars! ... Join the #CountdownToMars and celebrate this milestone by learning more about the team behind the spacecraft. Meet NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Planetary Protection Lead Moogega Stricker:

History in the making

Tomorrow evening 4 friends are going to walk out there, climb in, and leave Earth. Serious physical distancing. Watch here: https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive