🇨🇦 freelance space writer who saw astros fly to moon/ISS (shuttle, Soyuz, Artemis, SpaceX). Copy editor @payloadspace @JSOMonline. 5 books. Speak Latin. Ph.D.
Ottawa, Canada
Joined September 2008
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My jaw, dropping: "There's no way you can hear me right now."
Literal @projecthailmary: "Can hear."
All my thanks to #projecthailmary for broadcasting the amaze response that @Astro_Jeremy, on his way to the moon, gave us @CanadaInSpace. Fist my bump.
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From Artemis II astronauts to the @todayshow team. #ProjectHailMary is an amaze family experience for audiences across the galaxy. 💫
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ALT A Canada flag floating in space with Earth in the background / Le drapeau du Canada flotte dans l’espace avec la Terre en arrière-plan
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From all of us on the @Space_Station. We appreciate your service and we are honored to serve beside you.
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On #RemembranceDay, we honour those who have served Canada in times of conflict and peace.
Parliament is home to eight Books of Remembrance, containing the names of all Canadians who have lost their lives in military service.
ALT An open page of one of the eight Books of Remembrance.
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Rosanna Reade, Northern Irish contemporary printmaker and illustrator, living and working in Edinburgh #WomensArt
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For no reason at all, here are 8 facts about ancient Greece:
1. It was not called “Greece.”
The ancient civilization was a collection of city-states, kingdoms, and colonies whose people formed a collective identity.
They called themselves Hellēnes and their land Hellas. 🧵⬇️
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Luke Delaney and Jessica Watkins trained on Canadarm2 operations ahead of a spacewalk by Anil Menon and Joshua Kutryk that helped install the International Space Station’s eighth and final roll-out solar array, completing a major power upgrade. ⚡🌎 #ISS #Expedition75 #Canadarm2
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It's Remembrance Day.
Take time, this day above all, to honour and thank those who risked and lost their lives so that you could peacefully live yours.
"Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them."
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Your sacrifice is an enduring reminder that ALL have equal value. #remembranceday
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Votre sacrifice demeure un rappel indéfectible que TOUTES les vies ont une valeur égale. #jourdusouvenir
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Sunrise at Stonehenge today (11th November) was at 7.17am, sunset is at 4.21pm 🌥
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Sequencing DNA as part of the @NASA GEARS payload. GEARS complements ongoing microbial monitoring aboard the ISS by looking for antibiotic resistant organisms.
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Are your kids interested in science? Mine are and I credit a large part of that to @MarkRober. I had the distinct pleasure of talking to him from space and answering some really tough science questions from students.
Check it out and keep tuning in because @NASA has approved a space act agreement with class @crunchlabs to help provide space-related education for a free curriculum he is putting together for students.
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Thank you, especially for recognizing the TEAM. It was a community of competence, collaboration, and shared sacrifice. Congrats AII!
Announcing the winner of the Museum’s 2027 Michael Collins Trophy for Current Achievement: The Artemis II Mission Team
@NASA's Artemis II mission captured the attention of the world in April 2026 as commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen traveled around the Moon and back — the first crewed deep space mission in over 50 years.
ALT A group of four people in matching black shirts are in a spacecraft. They are surrounded by equipment and supplies. Two flags, the United States and Canada, are displayed behind them.
ALT The image shows a crescent view of the moon in the foreground with Earth visible in the distant background against a dark space backdrop.
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Powering up research!☀️⚡
Last week, @astro_anil and @Astro_Kutryk installed the eighth and final roll-out solar array, completing a five-year power upgrade.
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Science knows no borders. Joshua Kutryk's recent spacewalks aboard the International Space Station highlights the power of global cooperation in space. What scientific #Canadian innovation piques your interest?#InternationalWeekofScienceandSpace 🛰️
📸 NASA/CSA
ALT Joshua Kutryk during his first spacewalk, during which a new solar array was installed to increase the International Space Station's power generation capacity.
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Sunrise at Stonehenge today (10th November) was at 7.15, sunset is at 4.23pm 🌥
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Canada is ready to give its young launch industry a boost.
The country will upgrade its rockets to medium lift as part of its Launch the North initiative, which is aiming to support sovereign rockets flying from at least two nascent spaceports on Canada’s east coast.
The timeline for the upgrade is not clear, however; the smaller rockets are expected to get off the ground in 2028.
Read the full breakdown from Payload's @howellspace. Link below.
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Connecting live from the International Space Station, Joshua Kutryk spoke with youth at the Johnson Geo Centre in Newfoundland! Discover more about his mission and his journey in space so far. youtube.com/watch?v=6yjcvKKs…
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'I'm having the time of my life,' says astronaut Joshua Kutryk, beaming in from space ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/article/…
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A sweet way to celebrate 200 days in space. 🚀🍪 Jessica Watkins marks the milestone aboard the International Space Station, joined by Anna Kikina and Sergey Teteryatnikov. #Expedition75 #NASA #SpaceStation
