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Summer Camps 2023

Campers take off on a full flight of activities artfully balanced between music and aviation.

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Health in Space: Daring to Explore

Astronauts share their first-hand experiences that reveal how Canada has contributed to advancing our understanding of health in space. 

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DateOct 14, 2022 - Sep 4, 2023
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Lockheed CC-130E Hercules

Artifact no.: 2016.0005

Lockheed CC-130E Hercules

A heavy-duty transport aircraft designed by Lockheed Aircraft Corporation for the United States Air Force (USAF) in the early 1950s.

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From the Channel

The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 piloted by Second Lieutenant Franciszek Jarecki, Rønne airfield, Rønne, Denmark. Jarecki is the gentleman marked by an arrow. Anon., “Undamaged Red Jet in NATO Hands.” The Gazette, 7 March 1953, 2.
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A flight for freedom which pierced the Iron Curtain; or, The day Second Lieutenant Franciszek Jarecki escaped from Poland aboard a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 jet fighter

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Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Mar 19, 2023
How much do you know about 5 March 1953, my reading friend? The jury of the British Film Academy (BFA) selected the British motion picture The Sound Barrier as the best British film of 1952, as well as the best made film anywhere on planet Earth in that year, on 5 March 1953, you say (type?)? Very
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3 things you should know about why wool keeps us warm, and about its surprising uses in the garden and in space.

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Renée-Claude Goulet
Canada Agriculture and Food Museum
Mar 13, 2023
For the March edition, we explain why wool keeps us warm, how it can be used to improve soil, and how it can help prevent fires in spacecraft!
Four of the main characters of the what could well be Canada’s first SF television series, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Space Command. Anon., “Space Command Is Not Run-Of-Mill ‘Opera.’” The Ottawa Citizen, 26 December 1953, 14.
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“Challenging the stars themselves”: An infinitesimal look at what could well be Canada’s first science fiction television series, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Space Command

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Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Mar 12, 2023
Do you like science fiction (SF), my reading friend? And yes, yours truly very much realises that if one was to ask two SF fans for a definition of that genre, you would probably get three opinions, if not five. Personally, I rather like SF. I am especially fond of books that go over the history of
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Located on a former military air base just five kilometers from the Prime Minister’s residence at 24 Sussex Drive in Ottawa, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum focuses on aviation in Canada within an international context – from its beginnings in 1909 to today.
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