Media Advisory - MP Kate Young to Meet with Next Generation of Planetary Space Explorers at Western University

LONGUEUIL, QC, Nov. 1, 2016 /CNW Telbec/ - From now to November 18, 2016, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) is leading CanMars 2016, a Mars sample return simulation mission set in the Utah desert, one of the most realistic "planetary exploration" settings accessible on Earth.

From the science operations centre at Western University, a science team comprising students and researchers from five Canadian universities, as well as international partner space agencies and universities, will be working with the CSA to successfully complete the mission.

On November 2, the CSA and Western University will host a media technical briefing on the mission.

Following the briefing, Kate Young, Member of Parliament for London West, will tour the university's operations centre and meet with students taking part in the mission.

Media representatives are invited to attend.

Date:	November 2, 2016
Time:	9:00 a.m. (EDT)
What:	Media technical briefing available on CSA Facebook Live
	Photo-op with London West MP Kate Young: Tour of operations control room
Who:	London West MP Kate Young
	Dr. Tim Haltigin
	Senior Mission Scientist – Planetary Exploration CSA
	Dr. Gordon Osinski, Associate Professor & NSERC/MDA/CSA/CEMI
	Industrial Research Chair in Earth and Space Exploration
	Depts. of Earth Sciences, Physics & Astronomy
	Western University
	Dr. Raymond Francis
	Scientific Software Application Engineer
	Jet Propulsion Laboratory / NASA
	Elise Harrington
	M.Sc. Candidate – Department of Earth Sciences
	Centre for Planetary and Science Exploration
	Western University
Where:	Physics and Astronomy Building, Room 100
	Western University
	1151 Richmond St., London, ON N6A 3K7

Facebook:  Watch the livestream of the event here.

More information about the CSA's Mars sample return simulation mission. 
Technical Briefing PowerPoint presentation (will be available as of 9 a.m. on November 2) 
B-Roll

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SOURCE Canadian Space Agency

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