Elizabeth Howell is a reporter at the Ottawa Business Journal covering technology and the Canadian space scene as it relates to Ottawa companies. In her career she has attended and reported on three shuttle launches, interviewed astronauts ranging from Buzz Aldrin to Scott Parazynski to Marc Garneau, and written about space in several mainstream and specialty publications. Howell has reporting experience for a number of large Canadian news organizations such as CTV, the Globe and Mail and the Ottawa Citizen as well as specialty space publications like The Space Review, SpaceRef, NASA Watch, 365 Days of Astronomy and Air and Space Smithsonian. In her spare time, Howell writes a blog on Canadian space, Pars3c (www.pars3c.com) and is working to complete her Master of Science, Space Studies by distance at the University of North Dakota.