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In this episode of the Terranauts podcast we are back to talking about the history of human spaceflight and we finally get project Gemini out of the starting gate.
Read More »Gliding to a stop – the paraglider system
We remember – A special episode of Terranauts with Helene and Chris Hadfield
Last Thursday on 27 January, 2022 NASA marked its Day of Remembrance. A time that is set aside to remember those astronauts who died in the line of duty.
Read More »Terranauts – Good Fast Or Cheap
In this episode of the Terranauts podcast we continue the discussion of the transition from project Gemini to the Apollo program.
Read More »Technological Imperatives – NASA needs a new spacecraft
In this episode of the Terranauts podcast we talk about the technological imperatives that convinced NASA that it needed a new spacecraft before going to the Moon with the Apollo program.
Read More »Podcast – The history of the James Webb Space Telescope
In this episode of the Space Economy podcast, we have a special feature. This Friday, December 24th the James Webb Space Telescope is scheduled to launch. Today’s podcast is a Future in Space Operations presentation from Dec. 15 with Robert Smith of the University of Alberta who discusses The Making of Megascience: The History of the James Webb Space Telescope.
Read More »Enter The Twins – Project Gemini
In this episode of the Terranauts podcast we return to the historical narrative of humanity’s journey off the planet with NASA’s project Gemini.
Read More »Opinion: Towards a History of the Canadian Space Program
The year 2017 marks the sixtieth anniversary of the space age and no doubt the major spacefaring countries of the world will mark this occasion, but it is unlikely that Canada will be among them. For some strange reason, despite its direct involvement in the exploration and exploitation of outer space since the very dawn of the space age, Ottawa seems to have forgotten how …
Read More »Saving History, The Canadian Air and Space Museum Teeters
It’s hard to fathom what path of miscommunication forced heritage airplanes, including an Avro Arrow replica, a DHC-2 Beaver and the world’s oldest DHC-1 Chipmunk, outside of the Canadian Air and Space Museum on Sept. 20, 2011.
Read More »First Orbit – The Movie of Yuri Gagarin's Flight
First Orbit collaborated with the European Space Agency and the crew of Expedition 26/27 on the International Space Station to create this new film of what Yuri Gagarin witnessed fifty years ago today on humanity’s first space flight.
Read More »Looking Back 50 Years Ago Today – Statement by the USSR on Yuri Gagarin's Historic Space Flight
50 years ago today at 9:07 A.M. Moscow time, 1:07 A.M eastern, Yuri Gagarin was launched on a Soyuz rocket in the Vostok spacecraft becoming the first human in space. Gagarin spent a total of 108 minutes in space returning back to earth at 10:55 A.M. Moscow time.
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