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Find out more about the different parts of an astronaut’s space suit, along with experiments, instructions for making your own EMU, and more!
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The Legacy Series

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This original documentary film series showcases powerful, personal accounts of the Second World War through the lens of aviation.
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Fascinating Experiments

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Try these fascinating experiments with your class but don’t stop there! Turn it into an art activity and capture the beauty of science in action.
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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 left to right, Boum-Boum, Ba-Ba and Bi-Bi, in other words the Lunours. Anon., “Toute la vérité sur la soucoupe de St-Bruno – Un coup monté de $100,000.” Photo-Journal, 23 February to 1 March 1970, 1.
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We are Bi Bi Ba Ba Boum Boum: The saga of the Lunours

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Mar 29, 2020
Did you know, my reading friend who likes to keep abreast of what is going on this planet of mad / insane people called Earth, that a flying saucer landed, at sunrise, near the monastery of the Collège Mont-Saint-Gabriel, in Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Québec, on 22 February 1970? Yes, yes, a real
An example of the Swedish STAL Skuten turbojet engine on display, under guard, in Stockholm, Sweden. Anon., “Production – First Swedish Turbojet Revealed.” Aviation Week, 27 March 1950, 36.
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A tale of two engines, or four, or even six: The STAL Skuten, Dovern and Glan

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Mar 28, 2020
Yours truly is running out of ideas on how to start each new issue of our blog / bulletin / thingee. Any ideas, my reading friend? No? Sigh. Hello, then, and welcome yadda yadda yadda. If I may be permitted to quote one of the giants in the 2013 fantasy adventure motion picture Jack the Giant Slayer
Frances Marian “Poppy” Northcutt in one of the space exhibits of the Palais de la Découverte, a science centre in Paris, France, not Texas. Anon., “Astronautique – ‘Poppy’ à Paris.” Aviation Magazine International, 15 to 31 March 1970, 42.
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Her parents find her job exciting, but they would like her to marry: Frances Marian “Poppy” Northcutt at NASA and beyond

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Mar 28, 2020
Howdy, my reading friend, and how are things in your corner of this flat, sorry, circular planetary body we call Earth – which is kind of funny given that most of Earth is made of rock, much of which is molten, but I digress. Today’s peroration is brought to you by the 15 to 31 March 1970 issue of

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