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Title: What is Canada's future in space?
Category: Science
Posted By: saturn_656
Date: 2012-12-18 12:00:35
Canadian

[saturn_656]

Hadfield's mission is one for the history books. First time the ISS has been commanded by someone other than an American or Russian.

We should be spending more money on our Space Program. We are capable of doing so much more than we currently are.

[BartSimpson]

saturn_656 saturn_656:

Hadfield's mission is one for the history books. First time the ISS has been commanded by someone other than an American or Russian.

We should be spending more money on our Space Program. We are capable of doing so much more than we currently are.

No offense, but where North Korea has launched their own satellite I'd feel a little behind the curve, too.

[peck420]

Unless we plan on launching our own rockets, don't waste the money on stuff that will be controlled by somebody else.

And, we don't have the budget for that.

Expanding our technological base is great, in theory, but does jack squat unless we are actively using that technology. Which, will never really happen until we can launch independent missions.

[DrCaleb]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

saturn_656 saturn_656:

Hadfield's mission is one for the history books. First time the ISS has been commanded by someone other than an American or Russian.

We should be spending more money on our Space Program. We are capable of doing so much more than we currently are.

No offense, but where North Korea has launched their own satellite I'd feel a little behind the curve, too.

Fort Churchill was our launch site, built back in the 50's. We have launched a few since then.

[PluggyRug]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

saturn_656 saturn_656:

Hadfield's mission is one for the history books. First time the ISS has been commanded by someone other than an American or Russian.

We should be spending more money on our Space Program. We are capable of doing so much more than we currently are.

No offense, but where North Korea has launched their own satellite I'd feel a little behind the curve, too.

The NK satellite appears to have problems.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20769324