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In this episode of the Terranauts podcast we pause our ongoing history of NASA’s early spaceflight program and for the next two episodes focus on an important but largely unknown Canadian historical event, one that could have devastated the space program.
When last we left Mac Evans (in an episode called The Flag Is A One) – he was in the mission control centre of the Canadian Telecommunications Satellite (CTS), having just rescued it from an untimely demise. This was important because CTS was the first modern telecommunications satellite and set the pattern for 20 years of satellite development. It was an important Canadian contribution to the humanity’s journey off the planet.
Today we are going to talk about a different kind of last minute rescue. Today the rescue involves not just a satellite, but, in effect, a whole national space program.
