Okay, okay; enough already! Time to get over it. The AVRO Arrow has been dead for fifty years for God’s sake. Good grief, every time the Yanks do something in space that works we have to proclaim that we could have done it too if in 1959 the government of the day hadn’t scrapped the Arrow.
And talk about bush league: “Oh, look, it is the Canada Arm placing the billion dollar thingie in the starboard space widget.” Come on folks, the Canada Arm is probably assembled with thousands of parts manufactured in China! Yes, yes, the technology was developed in this low self esteemed country and that is a good thing but I wonder how many of the people working on the project are third, fourth or fifth generation Canadian??
Time to suck it up and give credit in the world where credit is due. Lets not forget that every aero space engineer who went to NASA back in the 60’s after the AVRO shut down is now well into retirement or well into decomposition.
I think a major coup that would put Canada onto the world’s stage for space research would be the day that our engineers fire the first Skidoo into orbit then direct one of our aging astronauts to take it to the moon and give it a run. If need be we can call the vehicle the Skidoo Arrow. Maybe Celine Dion could pilot it. That should make us all feel good again.
And talk about bush league: “Oh, look, it is the Canada Arm placing the billion dollar thingie in the starboard space widget.” Come on folks, the Canada Arm is probably assembled with thousands of parts manufactured in China! Yes, yes, the technology was developed in this low self esteemed country and that is a good thing but I wonder how many of the people working on the project are third, fourth or fifth generation Canadian??
Time to suck it up and give credit in the world where credit is due. Lets not forget that every aero space engineer who went to NASA back in the 60’s after the AVRO shut down is now well into retirement or well into decomposition.
I think a major coup that would put Canada onto the world’s stage for space research would be the day that our engineers fire the first Skidoo into orbit then direct one of our aging astronauts to take it to the moon and give it a run. If need be we can call the vehicle the Skidoo Arrow. Maybe Celine Dion could pilot it. That should make us all feel good again.
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