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Good afternoon all,
I am currently working on an essay involving Canadian politics. The topic I chose was the loses from the canceled Constellation Program and how it has affected the CSA/CSP (Canada Space Agency/Canada Space Program). I think everyone knows that political-wise the US and Canada go hand-in-hand on many debates and decisions. In my opinion I think the CSA had it right in outsourcing many of it's launches to help reduce the costs while NASA tries to vastly increase their budget to keep all launches on their home turf driving itself into a deeper deficit. This is not to say that the CSA is in any way better off than NASA. While Canada IS a leader in the design and construction of robotics for the space industry, and is well known for the Canadarm; it too suffered from it's own budget overruns. Our own Canadian governments allowed the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to fall behind, rejecting new program ideas and freezing funding at a level that caused Canadian space spending to fall behind other advanced countries levels of support for space activities.
I'd like to know with all these short-falls both agencies have shared, how does the failed Constellation Program affect Canada and the CSA?
I am currently working on an essay involving Canadian politics. The topic I chose was the loses from the canceled Constellation Program and how it has affected the CSA/CSP (Canada Space Agency/Canada Space Program). I think everyone knows that political-wise the US and Canada go hand-in-hand on many debates and decisions. In my opinion I think the CSA had it right in outsourcing many of it's launches to help reduce the costs while NASA tries to vastly increase their budget to keep all launches on their home turf driving itself into a deeper deficit. This is not to say that the CSA is in any way better off than NASA. While Canada IS a leader in the design and construction of robotics for the space industry, and is well known for the Canadarm; it too suffered from it's own budget overruns. Our own Canadian governments allowed the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to fall behind, rejecting new program ideas and freezing funding at a level that caused Canadian space spending to fall behind other advanced countries levels of support for space activities.
I'd like to know with all these short-falls both agencies have shared, how does the failed Constellation Program affect Canada and the CSA?