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Above and Beyond

Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Canada Aviation and Space Museum
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Above and Beyond is designed to ignite a passion for humankind’s greatest adventure: our journey of flight in air and space.
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Ingenium
Take advantage of Ingenium’s three world-class museums for your next field trip in Ottawa! Our museums offer school programs and workshops...
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Ride the Redbird

Ride the Redbird

Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Feel the sensation of flying without leaving the ground! Try out the Museum’s Redbird FMX flight simulator.
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Health in Space: Daring to Explore

Health in Space: Daring to Explore

Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Permanent Exhibition
Listen as astronauts share their first-hand experiences, and explore surprising artifacts that reveal how Canada has contributed to...
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Birthday Parties

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Ingenium
Plan a birthday party your child will always remember! Select a party package at the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, the Canada Aviation...
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Ingenium
Membership is the ideal way for you and your family to enjoy all of the fascinating exhibitions and activities at all three Museums as often...
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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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A group of people wearing spacesuits stand in a room illuminated by a red light.
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Space

You can go on a simulated mission to Mars in Spain

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Sep 17, 2019
Curious to know what it feels like to live on the Red Planet? TripAdvisor is now offering a “Life on Mars Experience,” and it only costs $9,000 CAD! Read more from Curiosity.com about this unusual travel offering.
A poster of the Soviet science fiction movie Nebo Zovyot.
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Nebo zovyot and Battle Beyond the Sun; or, Why, oh why did Americans trash a very good Soviet science fiction movie? Part 1

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Sep 16, 2019
Do you have an answer to the question at the heart of this week’s topic of our blog / bulletin / thingee, my reading friend? Never mind. We will examine this matter soon enough. Yours truly has another question, however. Did Soviet movie theatres sell popcorn in September 1959, the very month during
Soviet astrophysicist Alla Genrikhovna Masevich and her daughter, Natasha Josifovna Friedlander. Sam Schecter, “Deux Canadiens en Russie – Rencontres avec l’élite russe.” Le Soleil / Perspectives, 26 September 1959, 11.
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Her name is Masevich, Alla Genrikhovna Masevich

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Sep 9, 2019
Hello, hello, and hello, my reading friend. As part of the year of space that is 2019, yours truly wishes to offer you a topic which will, at least this is my hope, be of interest. And no, there will not be a test. My employer, the colossal Canada Aviation and Space Museum, in Ottawa, Ontario, being

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