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Take a journey through Canada’s aviation and space history – from the early days of flight to the future of space exploration. At the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, visitors can climb into the cockpit of a flight simulator and experience virtual flight – and participate in daily ejection seat demonstrations. Navigate through The Legacy of the Canadarm—an exhibition featuring a famous technological achievement—and step into Life in Orbit: The International Space Station for a taste of astronaut life.

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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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Avro Arrow
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Aviation & Space

The Avro Arrow: Recovering a relic

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Sep 19, 2018
Last summer, a precious artifact — believed to be an early test model used in the Avro Arrow jet fighter program — was recovered from the bottom of Lake Ontario. Covered in zebra mussels from its years spent under the water, the artifact’s preservation requires enormous amounts of painstaking work
The model of the Soviet rocket made for the French film À pied, à cheval et en Spoutnik. Anon., « À la conquête de la lune… » Photo-Journal, 23 to 30 August 1958, 8.
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Aviation & Space

A dog, a mouse and a Sputnik

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Sep 17, 2018
Hello, my reading friend, hello. Would you be unhappy if yours truly brought to our menu a largely spatial subject? Yes? No? Oh I see. Very well. We will talk about space today, despite all opposition. Indeed, the august institution for which I have the honour and pleasure of working, most of the
The host of the weekly television show Plein Ciel, on the right, and his technical adviser, Captain Marcel Everard. Anon., “Introduction à l’aviation.” La semaine à Radio-Canada, 29 November to 5 December 1958, 12.
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Aviation & Space

A television show I would have liked to see during my youth

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Sep 10, 2018
Greetings, my reading friend. With your permission, we will momentarily put aside the remarkable library of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa, Ontario, to view a publication which, at first glance, had nothing to do with the fields of interest of this august institution. A review of the