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Gateway Moon station: Canada joins Nasa space project
Canada will contribute US$1.4bn to a proposed Nasa space station that will orbit the Moon and act as a base to land astronauts on its surface.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the step would "push the boundaries of innovation".
The space station, called Gateway, is a key element in Nasa's plan to return to the Moon with humans in the 2020s.
As part of the 24-year commitment, Canada will build a next-generation robotic arm for the new lunar outpost.
"Canada is going to the Moon," Mr Trudeau told a news conference at Canadian Space Agency's headquarters near Montreal, according to AFP.
*Canada is going near the Moon.
Also at CBC and Popular Mechanics.
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China Will Focus on a Lunar Surface Station Rather than a Lunar Orbiting Station
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Could Launch Japanese and European Payloads to Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway
Head of Russian Space Agency Roscosmos Wavers on Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway
Is the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway the Right Way to the Moon?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 03 2019, @09:53PM (1 child)
He'll be gone in October if not sooner. Ironically, he got fucked by a woman.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday March 04 2019, @03:18AM
While I personally do not regard men as attractive in any way other than for purely intellectual reasons - for their writing, for their code and the like - Justin Trudeau is one of the very few for whom I pop a woody through no other means than the simple contemplation of his photograph.
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