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October 14, 2019

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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May 11, 2019

History of NASA’s VAB [Repost]

Despite its closure in 2011 the Vehicle Assembly Building (or VAB) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre still holds the distinction of being one of the largest single story buildings in…..

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June 30, 2018

History of the C.S.A. [Repost]

While the Canadian Space Agency wasn’t officially established until December 1990, its roots stretches back much further to the end of the Second World War and the following fifteen years…..

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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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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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October 24, 2015

Thank Nixon for the Shuttle Program [Repost]

While it was President John F. Kennedy that got the ball rolling, vowing that America would beat the Communists to the Moon after the Soviet Union successfully put Cosmonaut Yuri…..

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January 11, 2013

NASA’s Mars Opportunity Rover: Update

While all the focus in recent months has been upon the Mars Curiosity Rover, another of NASA’s creations has reached a milestone as we enter the New Year and the…..