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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.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Wednesday December 23 2020, @08:35PM (2 children)
To me, when Canadians say "about" it sounds like "abouwt" not "aboot" but that's because I'm Scottish and we say "aboot" but without the "w" sound that creeps in when Canadians say it. Canada looks like a very nice place and I'd like to visit some day.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 24 2020, @03:19AM (1 child)
It's regional. Heavily, heavily regional. Think about it: We've got more land area than even you do. Does someone from nebraska sound like someone from SoCal or someone from jersey?
What most of you think of as the "canadian" accent is eastern canada, primarily ontario. Expecting all of us to sound like that is like us expecting all of you to be trump supporters and have a drawling twang.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 24 2020, @05:42AM
Clear your mind for a second of your Little Brother complex vs. America and re-read to whom you are replying: the guy is from SCOTLAND.