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What are the lessons that can be learned from the Apollo program as we forward to the Artemis program from a science and engineering operations perspective?
Read More »The past is prologue – From Apollo to Artemis
Canadian Engineers Helped Guide America’s Mercury, Gemini and Apollo Programs
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.
Read More »Perspectives on the Apollo Program with Historian Roger Launius
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.
Read More »The Canadian Story of the Apollo Lunar Module Landing Legs
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.
Read More »Preserved 1966 Apollo Lunar Landing Symposium Material by Canadian Finds Home on NASA Website
This past weekend was the 50th anniversary of a three-day 1966 Apollo Lunar Landing Symposium (ALLMS) that took place in Houston the weekend of June 25-27, 1966. It was an important event in the Apollo missions timeline and including prominent Canadians. Now another Canadian, Randy Attwood, current Executive Director of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, has found a home on the NASA Apollo Lunar …
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