When the Diefenbaker government announced the cancellation of Canada’s Avro CF-105 Arrow in February 1959, few could have predicted the effect on the American space program.
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A we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission it’s important to look back at the time of the Apollo program in the 60’s and early 70’s to better understand the motivations of the Apollo program and what was happening in the world at that time.
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In the early 1960s, a Canadian company suddenly found itself at the forefront of the American effort to put United States astronauts on the moon. On the back of a contract worth the equivalent of $2 million today, Héroux (today’s Héroux-Devtek) beat out several competing American contractors to manufacture the lunar module’s landing legs.
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Fifty years after the Apollo 11 mission which saw the first humans to set foot on another planetary body, six Canadian astronauts will host six events across the country to commemorate the landing on the moon on July 20.
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With the 50th anniversary of the famous Apollo 11 mission which saw the first humans set foot on the moon, Canada Post has released a new commemorative set of stamps including Canadian contributions.
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Two days from now David Saint-Jacques will return to Earth after more than six months in space and setting a Canadian record for the longest duration mission. On June 19 he participated in his last on-orbit media event.
Read More »Neil Armstrong was a hero. He never sought public adulation. He was a pilot, an engineer, a teacher, a husband, a father, a grandfather and a mentor. His qualities and his skills enabled him to become the first person chosen to land on another celestial body, our moon.
Read More »NASA released Thursday newly restored video from the July 20, 1969, live television broadcast of the Apollo 11 moonwalk. The release commemorates the 40th anniversary of the first mission to land astronauts on the moon.
Read More »The following is a series of questions and answers prepared by Michael Collins, command module pilot for Apollo 11. Collins issued the following statement in lieu of media interviews:
Read More »You’re in a spacecraft, on a mission to land on the moon for the first time in history, and the microphone to Earth is off. What do you say?
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