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A group of people wearing spacesuits stand in a room illuminated by a red light.

You can go on a simulated mission to Mars in Spain

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

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.

Nebo zovyot and Battle Beyond the Sun; or, Why, oh why did Americans trash a very good Soviet science fiction movie? Part 1

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

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 which the science fiction movie Nebo Zovyot, a Soviet take on the space race of the 1950s and early 1960s, an admirable, breathtaking, grand and visually impressive motion picture, dare one say (type

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.

Her name is Masevich, Alla Genrikhovna Masevich

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

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 what it is, it is also my hope that you will not be outraged by the topic I chose for this week. Said topic has to do with astronomy, a field in which the museum should be involved in. Dare I say

Robert L. Pavey, director of special foods at Swift & Company, tasting cubes of roast beef, or Moon meatballs, that Apollo program astronauts may have eaten. Anon., “Space foods, space fashions inspired by Moon.” The Desert Sun, 17 July 1969, 4.

I was eating on the Moon one day, in the merry, merry month of July

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

You may be pleased, or not, my reading friend, to hear (read?) that yours truly, eager as I am to offer you an ever more varied selection of tasty viands, boldly went where I had not gone before in search of a topic for this week. And yes, I plead guilty to 2 counts of awkward paraphrasing, one against William “Bill” Shatner, an actor originally from the Montréal region of Québec, and one against Leonard Simon Nimoy. What’s this? You get the reference to the opening words of every episode of the

A sign which reads: NASA Space Task Group.

NASA, eh? Reflecting on Canada’s contribution to Apollo 11

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Technology

The story of how Canadian engineers from Avro went to work for NASA after the Arrow program was cancelled, and helped put a man on the moon.

Beth Ross posing for a photographer as she cleaned up the main fragment of the Dresden chondrite in front of the office of The Dresden News. Anon., “Adding lustre to meteor that startled a province.” Toronto Daily Star, 13 July 1939, 1.

The art of the deal in rural Ontario; or, The unhappy tale of the Dresden chondrite

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

And yes, my reading friend, the topic we will explore in this week’s issue of our blog / bulletin / thingee is astronomical in nature. To paraphrase the lead singer of the American new wave band Talking Heads, in its 1981 hit Once in a lifetime, you may ask yourself why this is so. Well, one could argue that astronomy falls within the mandate of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, in Ottawa, Ontario. I am not part of this hypothetical “one” – of course. At least not officially. So, let’s talk

Gérard Duquette, foreman at Héroux Incorporée, on the right, with many family members and 2 of his workers, 20 July 1969. Roger Nadeau, “Les ouvriers de la Héroux ont tressailli de joie en voyant le LEM sur la Lune.” Le Petit Journal, 27 July 1969, 4.

Did you know that the Eagle landed on the Moon on legs made in Québec?

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Grab a chair, or a beanbag, my reading friend. While it is true that we are not in Longueuil, Québec, in July 1969, waiting for a human being to set foot on the Moon, we nonetheless have the right to have a little comfort. Let us start our weekly peroration with a review of the situation. The photo above was / is from the 27 July 1969 issue of the weekly Le Petit Journal of Montréal, Québec, a publication gone for many years now. Let us continue our peroration with the question you probably

A small badge with the words "Canada Aviation and Space Museum" is framed against the window of the International Space Station, with the Earth in the background.

Museum staff flying high over photo from David Saint-Jacques

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

It’s not every day you receive a photo that’s out of this world…literally. Last week, staff at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum were thrilled to receive a spectacular photo from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) of a small museum badge — taken by astronaut David Saint-Jacques while aboard the International Space Station (ISS). “We were really pleased that David took the time to capture this stunning image of our museum’s badge,” says Erin Poulton, exhibition interpretation officer for the

Canadian engineer Owen Eugene Maynard with a model of the Convair Atlas launch vehicle topped by a McDonnell Mercury space capsule, 1962. Roger Nadeau, “Une foule de techniciens canadiens ont pris part au vol d’Apollo 11.” Le Petit Journal, 20 July 1969, 4.

The little guy from Sarnia who put the first human on the Moon

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

If I may be permitted to paraphrase Lawrence Henry Gowan, a Scottish Canadian singer, Homo sapiens is a strange animal. Our history can be the best of times. It can also be the worst of times, if I may paraphrase Charles John Huffam Dickens. All of this to say (type?) that July 2019 was / is quite the month from an anniversarial point of view. Fifty years ago this month, a human, 2 humans actually, set foot on an extraterrestrial body. And what a body! The Moon, to paraphrase the title of a 1966

Dr. William Richard Carpentier in the converted Airstream trailer known as the Mobile Quarantine Facility. Tom Alderman, “Canada’s men on the Moon shot.” Star Weekly, 28 June 1969, 6.

A real McCoy, space doctor William Richard Carpentier

Rénald Fortier

Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Dammit, my reading friend, I’m a museum curator, not a doctor. Sorry. That was uncalled for – and rather quirky as an opening sentence. Still, I couldn’t resist this little Star Trek joke, and… You do get it, don’t you? Dammit, Jim, I’m a doctor, not a whatever happened to be the flavour of the week? Sigh… What do people learn in school these days? There is no respect for the classics. To quote Marvin, the paranoid android in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, magnificently played by Alan

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