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Reports on the beginning of the construction phase of the Space Station "Freedom" in December 1990. Political problems of the past, including getting budget allocations for the project; View that the space station is the first step in humanity's move to the moon and Mars; International cooperation between the U.S., Japan, the European Space Agency, and Canada in the project; View that the space station needs a single, unifying objective, and that the project lacks guidance from the U.S. government; Complications in scheduling the launching of the space station's components. INSET: A New Partner?.

Discusses the prediction by experts of a crisis involving the value of the United States dollar in 2005 due to runaway spending. Amount of money spent on attacking Iraq; Details of the mission to Mars plan and the space initiative envisioned by United States president George W. Bush; Shortfall amount for fiscal 2004 according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office; Balanced budget efforts by the Canadian government.

Notes that the United States National Aeronautics & Space Administration plans to observe Canadian physician Graeme Magor and his family as they live aboard a sailboat off of the coast of Ellesmere Island in the Arctic Ocean with two other couples. What Magor and the others will face on the boat; How it is applicable to space travel; What NASA hopes to learn about long-term isolation.

An interview with General Manager of the Canadian Adventure Travel Company Katrina Boyce is presented. She discusses the creation of the company, how travel company Merit got involved in the company and the market for adventure travel companies in Canada. She also discusses the space travel package offered by Adventure Travel Company.

The article focuses on Canadian Space Agency's (CSA) global online campaign for astronaut Chris Hadfield's trip to the International Space Station. It mentions that Anna Kapiniari, head of communications at CSA, tried for two years in developing a media plan for the five-month mission. It cites that Kapiniari was aware that the public did not want stale science news so she decided to build the strategy focusing on Hadfield's personality.