Canadian Space Society

Space exploration articles authored by John Kavanagh for the Canadian Space Gazette, a publication of the Canadian Space Society.

Canada on the International Space Station

On 11 November 1998 Canada joined fifteen countries in space engineering's most challenging venture to date, the construction of the International Space Station.

Spacecraft Exploring Comets

Drifting through the Oort Cloud, in the distant reaches of our Solar System, exist icy relics we call comets. Occasionally, from the gravitational disturbance of a planet or nearby star, a comet will fall from this lonely dark region towards the Sun.

Interplanetary Missions of 1997

The year 1997 saw more space activities than any other within the last decade. Human spaceflight included eight shuttle launches with missions involving on-orbit science, preparations for the International Space Station and maintenance of Mir.