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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 24 2020, @03:19PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 24 2020, @03:19PM (#1091007)

    Yip, indeed. That is why I added that little keyword "developed" nations. It's really just a euphemism for nuclear, yet even with that restriction it's been an incredibly positive thing. We have liked killed hundreds of thousands to millions of people in the Mideast in completely unjustified aggression, but even such activities in no way even compare to what war once was. During WW2 about 3% of the entire world's population was killed. To scale that up to modern times that'd be the equivalent of 234 million people dying in 6 years, or about 40 million people per year.

    There's actually a really nice way to understand such a stupidly large number. There have been about 80 million people who've gotten COVID this year and the mortality rate for people under the age of 65 is less than 1%. [acsh.org] In fact it's less than 0.06% for people under the age of 40. Now instead, imagine the COVID mortality rate was 50% and half of everybody that ever got the disease this year ended up dying from it. It's difficult to even imagine that scale of loss and suffering, yet that is what war used to be like and instead of lasting for a couple of years, as most plagues do, it lasted for more than half a decade.