Live Events With The Canadian Space Agency
We’re excited to be teaming up with the Canadian Space Agency for a new series of live events this school year! Join us each month as we put a spotlight on Canada’s incredible contributions to exploring beyond our blue planet, while also using technology to look back and understand it better than ever before!
We’ll connect with the scientists, engineers and astronauts pushing us into a new frontier of exploration!
Join Josh to explore his career path, and his ongoing training for his mission to the International Space Station!!!
Joshua Kutryk is an experimental test pilot with over 4,000 hours of flying experience on more than 40 aircraft types. Prior to joining the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), Col Kutryk flew as a developmental pilot for the Royal Canadian Air Force in Cold Lake, Alberta. He has worked on a variety of flight test projects, including out-of-control flying, simulator certification, automated navigation and weapon guidance development. Previously, Col Kutryk served as a CF-18 fighter pilot, flying missions in support of NATO, UN and NORAD commitments around the world. He has been deployed to both Libya and Afghanistan.
Joshua Kutryk was selected as an astronaut candidate by the CSA in July 2017. He completed the two-year Astronaut Candidate Training Program and obtained the official title of astronaut in January 2020. Since then, he has continued to serve Canada’s space program as an active astronaut at NASA. He works in different technical and operational positions, including from Mission Control as a capcom during spacewalks and commercial vehicle proximity operations. In 2023, he was assigned to a mission to the International Space Station, where he will live and work for approximately six months.
Rejoignez Josh pour explorer son parcours professionnel et sa formation continue pour sa mission vers la Station spatiale internationale !!!
Joshua Kutryk est un pilote d’essai cumulant plus de 4000 heures de vol sur plus de 40 types d’avion. Avant de se joindre à l’Agence spatiale canadienne (ASC), le Col Kutryk était pilote d’essai pour l’Aviation royale canadienne à Cold Lake, en Alberta. Il a travaillé sur une variété de projets d’essais, par exemple le pilotage hors contrôle, l’homologation de simulateurs, la navigation automatisée et le développement de systèmes de guidage d’armes. Auparavant, comme pilote de CF-18, le Col Kutryk a effectué des missions pour aider l’OTAN, l’ONU et le NORAD à respecter leurs engagements dans le monde entier. Il est allé en mission en Libye et en Afghanistan.
Joshua Kutryk a été sélectionné comme candidat astronaute en juillet 2017 par l’ASC. Après sa formation de base d’astronaute d’une durée de deux ans, il a obtenu en janvier 2020 le titre officiel d’astronaute. Il travaille depuis à la NASA en qualité d’astronaute de l’ASC. Il occupe différents postes techniques et opérationnels, notamment celui d’agent de liaison capcom au centre de contrôle de mission lors de sorties dans l’espace et de manœuvres d’approche de véhicules spatiaux commerciaux. En 2023, il a été affecté à une mission commerciale à la Station spatiale internationale d’une durée d’environ six mois. Il sera le premier astronaute de l’ASC à prendre part à une mission du Programme des missions habitées commerciales de la NASA.
Past Lessons
Join a special event with the Canadian Space Agency to learn about asteroids and Canada’s role in the first mission to return a sample from an asteroid to Earth, OSIRIS-REx.
Tim Haltigin is the Senior Mission Scientist in Planetary Exploration and Science Advisor at the Canadian Space Agency, where he helps lead Canada’s efforts in exploring the solar system. He received his PhD from McGill University, where his research revealed similarities in the evolution of ice-rich terrains on Earth and Mars. He was previously in the running to become Canada’s next astronaut, has worked on a variety of robotic missions throughout the solar system, and has an asteroid named after him (130066 timhaltigin). More details about his projects and background are at sciencewithtim.webnode.com
David Saint-Jacques has always been keen on exploring the world around him. Prior to joining the Canadian space program in May 2009, he practised family medicine in a northern Canadian village overlooking Hudson Bay. Before that, he worked as an astrophysicist in Cambridge, United Kingdom; Tokyo, Japan; Hawaii, USA; and Montreal, Canada. He was also a clinical faculty lecturer for McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine and an engineer for a Quebec-based small business.
On December 3, 2018, he flew to the International Space Station as an Expedition 58/59 flight engineer and co-pilot of the Soyuz spacecraft. During his 204-day mission, he conducted a series of scientific experiments, robotics tasks and technology demonstrations. David Saint-Jacques became the fourth Canadian Space Agency astronaut to perform a spacewalk and the first to use Canadarm2 to catch a visiting spacecraft.
Join us for a special event to learn about how we’re exploring Mars with the Curiosity Rover and the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) instrument. By examining the dust and rock of Mars’s ancient environment, this mission is searching for answers to a question that has fascinated humanity for ages: is there life out there in the universe? Canada’s APXS instrument is helping scientists get a clearer picture of the answer!
Patrick Hill is a Mission Scientist in Planetary Exploration at the Canadian Space Agency, where he helps lead Canada’s efforts in exploring the solar system. He received his PhD from Western University, where he examined meteorites, Apollo samples, and terrestrial impactites to investigate the origin of lunar material and the processes that shape the Moon’s surface. At the Canadian Space Agency, he contributes to the Lunar Exploration Program, advances preparations for the curation of the Canadian portion of the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample, and manages the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) instrument on the Curiosity rover.
Join us for a special event to learn the who, what, where, when and why of the Canada’s Lunar Rover! During this event we’ll announce the name of the rover!
After completing a Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia in geology and geochemistry, Caroline Emmanuelle-Morisset had the chance to be a post-doctoral fellow at the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to study the Apollo samples and work on potential lunar resources. Following this, she worked as a consultant in mining geochemistry with Golder Associates. She is now working as a Planetary Senior Mission Scientist at the CSA on the scientific aspects of the Lunar Exploration Program (LEAP), in particular, she is the CSA Science Lead for the Canadian Lunar Rover project, and she is the Sample Analysis and Curation Lead for the Canadian portion of the Asteroid Bennu Sample.
Join Josh to explore his career path, and his ongoing training for his mission to the International Space Station!!!
Joshua Kutryk is an experimental test pilot with over 4,000 hours of flying experience on more than 40 aircraft types. Prior to joining the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), Col Kutryk flew as a developmental pilot for the Royal Canadian Air Force in Cold Lake, Alberta. He has worked on a variety of flight test projects, including out-of-control flying, simulator certification, automated navigation and weapon guidance development. Previously, Col Kutryk served as a CF-18 fighter pilot, flying missions in support of NATO, UN and NORAD commitments around the world. He has been deployed to both Libya and Afghanistan.
Joshua Kutryk was selected as an astronaut candidate by the CSA in July 2017. He completed the two-year Astronaut Candidate Training Program and obtained the official title of astronaut in January 2020. Since then, he has continued to serve Canada’s space program as an active astronaut at NASA. He works in different technical and operational positions, including from Mission Control as a capcom during spacewalks and commercial vehicle proximity operations. In 2023, he was assigned to a mission to the International Space Station, where he will live and work for approximately six months.
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