19 March 2008

Canada losing ground in space

As Canada's space agency celebrates the installation of Dextre the robot on the International Space Station, the country's space program is in serious trouble: funding is lagging, leadership is unstable and the astronaut corps is shrinking.

LD: Yet another example of how Canada is losing vision, purpose, and status in the international community. Looking at US Media about Dextre is very interesting in that almost all references to Canada are missing. We should have taken a lesson from Microsoft marketing and called it Canadarm for Space Station Workgroups v3!

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