Published on
Oct 5, 2024
‘He had the weight of Canada on his shoulders’: An oral history of Canada’s first trip to space, 40 years later
By 1984, Canada’s space industry was picking up steam. The country had launched its first satellite, Alouette 1, in 1962. In 1974, NASA commissioned Canada to design and build a robotic arm — later named the Canadarm — that would fly on the space shuttle. …
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Hamilton Spectator
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