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NASA Says It Will Fly a Canadian to the Moon

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday December 23 2020, @04:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the collaboration-eh? dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:

NASA says it will fly a Canadian to the Moon:

NASA just struck a historic deal with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) that will entail, for the first time in history, a non-US astronaut orbiting the Moon.

The agreement says that the CSA will help NASA with its upcoming Artemis Moon missions in exchange for a seat on some of the flights, according to Space.com. Not only is the CSA's support good news for the Artemis missions specifically, but it's a major international development in the future of crewed space exploration.

[...] "This will make Canada only the second country after the U.S. to have an astronaut in deep space... and send the first Canadian around the Moon," Navdeep Bains, Canada's government minister of innovation, science and industry said at a Wednesday press conference, according to Space.com.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Wednesday December 23 2020, @06:12PM (7 children)

    by Gaaark (41) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday December 23 2020, @06:12PM (#1090735) Journal

    We built the robotic arm so we could extend our reach into the fridge for another beer, eh!

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  • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Wednesday December 23 2020, @07:09PM (6 children)

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Wednesday December 23 2020, @07:09PM (#1090755) Journal

    Can the thing even lift a beer?

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    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday December 23 2020, @09:48PM (1 child)

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday December 23 2020, @09:48PM (#1090820) Homepage Journal

      In microgravity?

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      • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 23 2020, @11:09PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 23 2020, @11:09PM (#1090839)

        Is it a microbrew?

    • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Thursday December 24 2020, @03:30AM (3 children)

      by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Thursday December 24 2020, @03:30AM (#1090913) Journal
      It was able to snag the Hubble and provided a stable work platform for astronauts to swap parts.

      The Hubble masses over 11,000 kg. Now add a couple of astronauts in their gear, some spare parts, tools … while it's "weightless", it's not massless, so moving it takes work.

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      • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday December 24 2020, @05:11AM (2 children)

        by fustakrakich (6150) on Thursday December 24 2020, @05:11AM (#1090942) Journal

        Read it again. I wanna see it lift a beer out of the fridge. I wanna see it lift itself off the blocks

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        • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Saturday December 26 2020, @05:22AM (1 child)

          by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Saturday December 26 2020, @05:22AM (#1091389) Journal
          The one in the space shuttle would have been able to open a fridge and pick out a beer. These are precision remote manipulators.
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          • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday December 26 2020, @05:55AM

            by fustakrakich (6150) on Saturday December 26 2020, @05:55AM (#1091398) Journal

            We're not in the shuttle. Please, start from the beginning of the thread

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