![]() Better yet, it agreed to place said satellite into orbit at the expense of the American government. At the end of April, the National Aeronautics and Space Agency, an organisation quickly renamed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), agreed to cooperate with the Defence Telecommunications Research Establishment (DRTE) of the DRB in order to place its satellite – a satellite funded by the federal government – into orbit. The May 1959 announcement actually came a few days after a very significant event in the history of the Canadian space program. (Hello, EP!)Īnd yes, the rockets of the time had the unfortunate and very expensive habit of going badaboom. ![]() Keith Brown indicated that 4 to 6 examples of the satellite would be manufactured, one for ground tests, another intended to be launched and 2 to 4 others used in case the first launch, or the second, or the third, ended badly. The source, very official and approved that time, I think, was the head of the space instrumentation section of the Defense Research Board (DRB). It was apparently in early May 1959 that appeared the first newspaper articles mentioning Canada’s federal government’s plan to finance the construction of an artificial satellite to be launched in 1961 by an American rocket. ![]() And yes again, yours truly remembers seeing a number of episodes of the French version of Thunderbirds, Les sentinelles de l’air, during the 1960s or 1970s, but I digress. Period.Īnd yes, that series was mentioned in September 2018 and March 2019 issues of our blog / bulletin / thingee. If you do not recognise the opening sequence of every episode of the British television series Thunderbirds, launched in September 1965, then there are serious gaps in your knowledge of the popular culture of the Cold War period. Welcome aboard our special spatial ship, my reading friend.
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