Gordon Osinski has spent the last two decades studying craters left behind by meteorites.
The analysis of planetary geology has taken the Ontario university professor around the world and will now see him work on the NASA team that will develop the lunar surface science plan for the first people to walk on the moon in more than 50 years.
NASA is planning several Artemis missions that will take humans back to the moon and explore more of the lunar surface with the goal of using the findings to inform an eventual mission to Mars. The geology team Osinski is a part of will plan astronauts' scientific tasks during their moonwalks, which will include field geology studies, the collection of lunar samples, imagery and scientific measurements. The samples and data collected will help deepen the understanding of fundamental planetary processes, NASA has said.
Osinski also serves as the scientific lead for Canada’s first lunar rover mission, which is set to head to the moon's south pole region as early as 2026. He said it's currently an exciting time for Canadians interested in planetary science. Osinski, 47, grew up in the United Kingdom and moved to Canada in 1999. He began teaching at Western University in 2007.
“Since then, it's just expanded and snowballed to the point where now I'm involved in this team and looking at the geology for the first mission back to the moon," he said.
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