Written in the stars

The night sky stretches endlessly above the wide horizons of the Alberta prairie. As a teen, Gavin Schneider scanned those stars above his family’s wheat fields, wondering what worlds might lie far out beyond his view.

Now, he’s entrenched in the far-flung ambitions of space exploration and all the engineering required to allow space explorers to live for months — even years — beyond earth.

Schneider is CEO of Maia Farms, a startup that…