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NASA Says It Will Fly a Canadian to the Moon

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday December 23 2020, @04:01PM   
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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Original Submission

• Who First? Who First? (Score: 2) by Socrastotle on Wednesday December 23 2020, @08:02PM (4 children)

  by Socrastotle (13446) on Wednesday December 23 2020, @08:02PM (#1090777) Journal

  NASA
  China
  SpaceX
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• Re:Who First? Re:Who First? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 23 2020, @09:10PM (3 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 23 2020, @09:10PM (#1090796)

  You misspelled Chynah.

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  • Re:Who First? Re:Who First? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 23 2020, @09:56PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 23 2020, @09:56PM (#1090827)

    You misspelled "jī′nə"

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    • Re:Who First? Re:Who First? (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday December 23 2020, @10:23PM (1 child)

      by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Wednesday December 23 2020, @10:23PM (#1090833) Homepage

      > ī
      
      That symbol doesn't mean what you think it means. That's a long latvian (short) 'i'. Phonetically best rendered in AIPA as /i:/.
      The sound you're attempting to render is a glide (or a diphthong), best rendered in AIPA as /ai/.
      
      And your 'j' is right out.

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      • Re:Who First? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 24 2020, @05:56AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 24 2020, @05:56AM (#1090949)

        His representation is commonly used in English dictionaries and elementary schools to represent English pronunciation and has been for many, many decades, predating the International Phonetic Alphabet.

        You can't be that dense.

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