One Amateur’s Adventures in The Canadian Space Program
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One Amateur’s Adventures in
The The Canadian Canadian
Space Space Program Program
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Rockets1960 - 1965
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The Velvet Glove Missile1951 - 1956
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27 ft. long, 17 inches diameterWeight 2000 lb.
Thrust: 20,000 lb.
The Black Brant Upper Atmosphere Rocket
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a Black Brant
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The first Bristol Black Brant II was
launched from ChurchillManitoba
in October 1960
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A daylight launch
at Churchill
1960’s
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Black Brant IIISmallerLess expensive
18 feet long, 10 inches diameter
First Launched: June 1962 at Wallops Island Virginia
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1960 - solid state telemetry transmitter for Black Brant III
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Amplifier - Quadrupler
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Wallops Island Virginia, June 1962
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Aerial view of the NASA range at Wallops Island on the Atlantic Coast of Virginia USA
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Mounting a Black Brant III on one of the Wallops rail launchers
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Bristol Engineer Ralph BullockChecking out a BBIII payload
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NRC Engineer Ken Pulfer waiting for launch
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Four Black Brant III test firings were
launched at Wallops in
June 1962
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More BB IIIsSummer 1963 California
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Goldstone receiving station Mojave desert California
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Guns1963 - 1967
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McGill University Professor
Dr Gerry Bull
and his16 inchsmooth
boregun
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Barbadostest firing
of the16 inch gun.
Length 120 feet,
Acceleration5,000 to20,000 g
Gerry Bull was assassinated in 1990 after selling super guns to Saddam Hussein
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Satellites 1970 - 1985
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Designed and built at CRC, for about $50 million, CTS was launched 17 Jan 1976.
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Also at CRC, in 1976, Canada demonstratedthe first satellite Search and Rescue
System, using Amateur satellite Oscar VI
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Started in 1980 and launched in 1995,Radarsat-1 shows ice floes off Ellesmere Island
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Manned Space Program1975-1989
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The Canadarm
In 1969, Canada received an invitation from NASA to join the U.S. Space Shuttle Program.
In July 1975, an agreement was signed committing Canada to provide NASA with a robotic arm called the "Remote Manipulator System," (RMS) for the shuttle’s cargo bay.
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•The National Research Council developed the Manipulator System, Dr. Garry Lindberg was the first project manager. Work began on the program in 1975. SPAR Aerospace was selected as prime contractor.
•Canada built the first arm, paying for its design, construction and testing and in April 1981 April 1981 it was delivered to NASA.
•NASA bought three more arms at $75 million each.
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Jim Abrahamson
In 1981 he wasdeputy head of
the Shuttle program
Later he headed upReagan’s
“Star Wars” anti ballistic missile
program
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First Canadarm Flight• In the fall of 1981, the second manned flight of
the Space Shuttle carried a Canadarm
• The Shuttle was piloted by US astronaut Joe Engle, and the ARM was operated by US astronaut Dick Truly
• I went to Florida for the launch and then to Mission Control in Houston for the week of the flight
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Shuttle STS-2 on the launch pad
at Cape Kennedy
December 1981
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Mission Control , Houston Texas
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Saturn V at Johnson Space Centre, Houston Texas
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My son Jim at age 17 at Mission Control Houston, admiring the business end of a Saturn V Moon Rocket
December 1981
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The Canadarmin space aboard
the Shuttle
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Back in Ottawa after the Shuttle flight
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Cross Canada Tour - Winter of 1981 / 1982
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The Canadian Astronaut Program• In September 1982 Canada was invited by
NASA to put a Canadian astronaut aboard the Space Shuttle
• At NRC we started a minimum program with 6 astronauts
• In 1984 Marc Garneau, was the selected to be the first Canadian in space
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Pre-dawn launch of Marc’s flightOctober 5th 1984
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Marc and Bob on the tour - in Victoria?
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A few days later in Whitehorse
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Aboard the paddle wheel steamer on the Yukon river
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To: Dr Ken Pulfer, with the appreciation of the Canadian Astronaut Program, the Director and personnel, for your support, and particularly for your participation in the Trans-Canada tour following the flight of Canada’s first astronaut Marc Garneau, on STS 41G, October 5th to 13th 1984
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In 1986, at NRC, we began development of the Canadarm 2 for the International Space Station
Three years later
in 1989,the CanadianSpace Agency
was formed
In the fall of1989, I retired
from NRC
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Amateur Radio on the Space Station
1996 - 2010
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In 1996, amateurs from the US, Russia, Japan, the UK and Canada met in Houston Texas to plan
Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS)
Carolynn Conley NASA
KA3HDO W6DUE K1STO ON4WF
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Sergei Samburov RV3DR at ARISS meeting at CSA Montreal in 2002
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Frank Culbertson, KD5OPQ
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Canadian ARISS volunteers
• Robin Haighton VE3FRH AMSAT• Steve McFarlane VE3TBD mentor• George Roach VE3BNO QSLs• Norm Coull VE4EH QSLs• Wayne Harisimovitch VE1WPH mentor• Daniel Lamoureux VE2KA RAC• Stefan Wagener VE4NSA AMSAT• Maurice Andre Vigneault VE3VIG AMSAT
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Canadian school contacts• Feb 2001- The first Canadian amateur radio
school contact with the Space Station was at Merivale Public school Ottawa.
• Steve McFarlane VE3TBD and teacher wife Lori
were the organizers. George Roach and Clare Fowler provided technical support.
• So far there have been 44 Canadian amateur radio school contacts with astronauts on the Space Station. (nearly 600 worldwide)
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• In Jan 2007 – a school contact was arranged with
the support of The Museum of Science and Technology, OVMRC, and Maurice Andre Vigneault VE3VIG
• My youngest granddaughter (then 10 years old) was at Le Prelude school in Orleans.
• She spoke to US astronaut Sunita Williams KD5PLB
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