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Pierre Dorion, « L’ère des émotions. » La Presse, 9 October 1957, 4.

Québec / Canada and the simplest satellite, the PS-1 spacecraft, in other words Sputnik 1: An overview of what was published in the French language Québec press between 5 and 12 October 1957, Part 3

Rénald Fortier

Bienvenue, welcome, my reading friend, and… Um, yes, I am aware that World Space Week 2020 has been over for about a week, and… I am also aware that the question asked in the first part of this article (How the daily and weakly, sorry, weekly French language Québec press described what was being done and said in Canada and, more specifically, Québec, about the first artificial satellite, the Soviet Sputnik 1) has not been fully explored in the first 2 parts of this article. This is what explains

The simplest satellite or PS-1 spacecraft, in other words Sputnik I, a little before its launch, September 1957. NASA.

Québec / Canada and the simplest satellite, the PS-1 spacecraft, in other words Sputnik 1: An overview of what was published in the French language Québec press between 5 and 12 October 1957, Part 2

Rénald Fortier

Hello there, my reading friend fascinated by astronautics. Would you like to start reading, without further delay, this second part of the text on the first artificial satellite, Sputnik I, which concerns us today? Two brief seconds, you say? I will give you three… One, two… On 8 October 1957, readers of La Patrie, a daily from Montréal, Québec, learned that researchers at the Radio Physics Laboratory of the Defence Research Telecommunications Establishment of the Defence Research Board (DRB), a

A somewhat inaccurate drawing of the spacecraft PS-1, in other words Sputnik I, in orbit around the Earth. Anon., « Fusées et satellites seraient invincibles. » Le Soleil, 8 October 1957, 1.

Québec / Canada and the simplest satellite, the PS-1 spacecraft, in other words Sputnik 1: An overview of what was published in the French language Québec press between 5 and 12 October 1957, Part 1

Rénald Fortier

Happy World Space Week 2020, my reading friend! Would you believe that the first issue of our blog / bulletin / thingee came out 3 years, 3 months and 3 days ago? And yours truly is still digressing… If you do not mind, I wish to abandon, for this week only, rest assured, the anniversarial format of our blog / bulletin / thingee in order to devote many pontificating lines to a question which, at least I hope so, has not been discussed very, very often: how the daily and weakly, sorry, weekly

A spliced, horizontal image shows photos of a field of corn, the planet Mars, and an albatross flying over the water.

3 things you should know about fertilizer pollution, Mars, and the wandering albatross

The Echo 1A satellite balloon during an inflation test, 1960. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

The wonderful lead balloons of Claude Williams Coffee, Junior, Walter Edward Bressette and William J. O’Sullivan: The Echo satelloons in Québec and elsewhere, Part 2

Rénald Fortier

Have you watched the sky recently, my reading friend, as implored by one of the main characters in a 1951 American feature film, The Thing from Another World – one of the classics of science fiction cinema of the 1950s? Yes? No? No matter. And yes, yours truly wrote (typed?) these same words at the start of the first part of this article on the Echo 1A and Echo 2 satelloons. The present and second part of this article consists of a few lines on what was said about Echo 1A in Québec in August and

The Echo 1A satelloon whizzing in the sky, above the École normale de Chicoutimi, Chicoutimi, Québec. Dominique Lapointe, “Une visite qui nous est devenue familière – L’Écho 1 continue à se promener tous les soirs sur notre région.” Le Progrès du Saguenay, 27 August 1960, 7.

The wonderful lead balloons of Claude Williams Coffee, Junior, Walter Edward Bressette and William J. O’Sullivan: The Echo satelloons in Québec and elsewhere, Part 1

Rénald Fortier

Have you watched the sky recently, my reading friend, as implored by one of the main characters in a 1951 American feature film, The Thing from Another World – one of the classics of science fiction cinema of the 1950s? Yes? No? No matter. This week’s topic touches upon 1 of the 2 fields of activity of the wonderful Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa, Ontario, namely space, the final frontier. The photograph with which we begin our plunge into the interplanetary vacuum is not

Astronaut Chris Hadfield, wearing a white spacesuit and helmet.

Social Science & Culture

7 tips from an astronaut on how to master remote work

Collage of Contest Winning LEGO® Creations

Imagining the future…one block at a time

A wide-angle view of a large space inside a museum, with white walls and a black floor. Colourful panels are visible, as well as a computer screen and a spacesuit inside a glass case.

Six steps for planning clear communication

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.

Social Science & Culture

We are Bi Bi Ba Ba Boum Boum: The saga of the Lunours

Rénald Fortier

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 flying saucer. With 3 crew members. This landing caused quite a stir among the population of the place. Lady Rumour had a field day. More than one person wondered in fact if nasty sea, sorry, alien