CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY PRESS CONFERENCE, Dec 16, 2020, virtual, 10:00 am ET

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) will hold a press conference on December 16, 2020 at 10:00 am ET to make a “major announcement on the future of Canadian space exploration.”

The event will be streamed on the CSA‘s YouTube channel and Facebook page.

Participants include the four active Canadian astronauts so presumably concerns Canadian participation in the NASA-led human exploration program  NASA recently designated 18 NASA astronauts as members of the “Artemis Team” or Artemis Cadre that will be assigned to trips to the Moon, including to land there.  International astronauts are expected to be similarly designated.

The participants are:

• Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry
• Canadian Space Agency (CSA) President Lisa Campbell
• CSA astronauts
  • Jeremy Hansen,
  • Joshua Kutryk,
  • David Saint-Jacques and
  • Jenni Sidey-Gibbons