Canada to participate in U.S.-led lunar mission, according to sources

Watching the little potato announce this yesterday, I could only wish that he could be sent to space.

Don't care about little potato. We're going to the moon!!! *runs around excitedly*

You could be the first Llama in space!

Space Llama!!!!!!!1!!!11111!!

Damn, that's a pretty aggressive schedule.

The moon's still to close, Pluto would be alot more fitting.

No Canadians are going to go to space. Just a robotic arm.

do not dash the Space Llama's hopes and dreams.

I thought Gerald Butts had resigned.

It'll be a trade most likely. The Arm, in exchange for the occasional ride for one of our astronauts. That's usually how it's arranged.

Already took my astronaut headshot.

I think Bart is correct, for the first missions at least.

Our current, certified, astronauts will not be applicable, as their current missions end after the training cutoff for this mission.

Our upcoming astronauts, training now, would be applicable, but it could cause a bit of a political shit show here, so I don't know if CSA would even risk it.

Probably going to be the artificial Canadian only (Canadarm 3) until the landing phase of the mission sets.

Being that this is a stepping stone for a manned mission to Mars, I have to ask something that really bothers me. What's the fascination with living on a dead planet? All we have to do is just keep doing what we do here for another couple hundred years and we'll have a near-dead planet without all the added extra cost.

/sarcasm off...or was that cynicism?