The Canadian Space Agency has a new interim president after Laurier Boisvert recently left the post just nine months into the job.

By THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA - Former Canadian astronaut Marc Garneau is urging the federal government to draft a national space policy. Garneau says China, India and Brazil are developing space programs to compete with the U.S. and Russia, and space is becoming an increasingly crowded arena.

LONGUEUIL, Que. (CP) - The next Canadian astronaut scheduled to take a space shuttle flight says he has some concerns despite a vote of confidence for the program by the head of the Canadian Space Agency.

LONGUEUIL, Que. (CP) - The federal government will have to increase the Canadian Space Agency's budget if it wants Canada to be part of future missions to Mars or the moon, the head of the agency said Tuesday.

VANCOUVER (CP) - Brain-crimping nausea and a $250,000 price tag is worth a trip to space, say top Canadian astronauts who have started to sound like an ad campaign for the emerging commercial space travel market. "I'm hoping it will work.