Canadarm and its future [Repost]

In addition to our efforts providing technical expertise and training for the rover program, Canada is perhaps more famously known for its development of the Canadarm in 1981, which would…..

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October 15, 2017

Abridged history of NASA [Repost]

Originally established on July 29, 1958 by President Eisenhower through the National Aeronautics and Space Act the agency became America’s civilian space program for aeronautics research to encourage development of…..

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September 23, 2017

NASA Space Shuttle Program history [Repost]

While I’d earlier joked about President Nixon being responsible for giving the final go ahead for development of the space shuttle program in 1972, I thought I should put together…..

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July 13, 2017

Time-lapsed flyover by the ISS [Repost]

Because it’s just so cool, figured I share a video I’d come across that does a time-lapsed flyover of the Earth. Taken as the International Space Station orbited the planet…..

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April 10, 2017

International Space Station history [Repost]

Due to budget constraints experienced by NASA, the Russian RKA, the Japanese JAXA, the European ESA, and the Canadian ASC-CSA in the early 1990s their respective projects (the Japanese Kibo…..

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June 12, 2013

Commander Hadfield announces retirement

During his most recent tour aboard the International Space Station the Canadian astronaut became a media sensation while getting to live out a childhood dream and assume command of the…..

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December 20, 2012

World’s First: Canadian ISS Commander

Wednesday astronaut Chris Hadfield blasted off in the Russian Soyuz capsule from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan for his third mission to space. While the trip to space isn’t anything unusual…..

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August 27, 2012

Mars Curiosity #CSAtweetup

During the #CSAtweetup for Curiosity’s landing we were invited back later that morning to get a tour of the facilities and learn more about the ways through which the Canadian…..