The future of space.

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Here is a some thing intresting .<br />---------------------<br /><br />CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – As NASA aims to shelve the shuttle program in three years' time, Canadian space officials are pondering: where to go next.<br /><br />The Canadian Space Agency is looking down the road, both short and long term, even as Canadian Dave Williams is flying on Endeavour with six other astronauts in the shuttle's current mission.<br /><br />Endeavour blasted into space in a smooth launch Wednesday evening, heading for a Friday rendezvous with the orbiting International Space Station.<br /><br />Space programs across the globe are focusing on exploration in the future.<br /><br />Russian, Chinese, European and the United States are looking to returning to the moon once the International Space Station is built, and then beyond to Mars.<br /><br />"Canada is currently assessing where we want to go," said Benoit Marcotte, acting director of operations and assets for the Canadian Space Agency, or CSA.<br /><br />"Eventually, we'll make the right decisions about the future about the CSA, Canadian astronauts and the future of our involvement in partnerships."<br /><br />The agency's new president, Larry Boisvert, who has been in place since April, met with NASA administrator Michael Griffin on Wednesday to discuss the future.<br /><br />For now, NASA officials are scrambling to have the space station completed and operational by 2010 while working on a new reusable vehicle, the Orion capsule.<br /><br />The space station program is scheduled to end by 2016, but Marcotte said it's entirely possible that could be extended.<br /><br />But since Orion is only scheduled to fly in 2014, the main space transport in the interim will be the Russian Soyuz system.<br /><br />Canadian astronauts Chris Hadfield and Robert Thirsk are qualified as Soyuz flight engineers, and Thirsk is training for a long-term stay in space.<br /><br />Marcotte says while it is unlikely that Canada will ever be able to conduct space activitie <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>
 
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Canada is emerging as a leader in other technologies also such as lidar technology, a laser radar system that can be used on Earth and in space for precise mapping and 3-D imaging.<br /><br />Canadian innovation was front and centre at the Kennedy Space Centre this week.<br /><br />A Canadian hand-eye co-ordination experiment is aboard Endeavour. Last weekend, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander lifted off with a Canadian designed meteorological station fitted to track the weather and climate on Mars.<br /><br />In February, Canada's newest robotic invention, Dextre, a two-armed robot designed to act as the International Space Station's surgeon, is set to go into orbit where it will be a compliment to the Canadarm2, already part of the station.<br /><br />Education, a major theme of Endeavour's STS-118 mission to the space station and a personal goal of Williams, remains key for the space agency.<br /><br />"We need to continue to promote science and mathematics among our younger population," Marcotte said.<br /><br />"We see a decline in enrolment in those projects. We need people that will build the scientific community in Canada or maintain the edge that we have."<br /><br />Meanwhile, Canadian astronauts are confident that at least one more Canadian will return to the space station between now and the shuttle program's retirement.<br /><br />NASA will fly on average about four missions a year, and not all crew rosters have been confirmed for those missions.<br /><br />"At the moment we don't have an official name for a Canadian but we have opportunities to fly on a space shuttle before it's retired in 2010 and on the space station as long duration crew members," said astronaut Julie Payette.<br /><br />Aug 09, 2007 12:55 PM <br />Canadian Press<br /><br />http://www.thestar.com/News/article/244743<br /><br /><br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>
 
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I don't think you will see Canada have the money to go in space by it self.<br /><br />But this press just points out it is government bureaucracy.I don't think Russia has much money these days to do much they spend money like the world was coming to the end.<br /><br />Well I don't see Russia going to the moon or building its own space station.<br /><br />And I don't see any new rocket or space shuttle for Russia they are still going to use the very old rockets from the 70's. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>
 
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<img src="/images/icons/mad.gif" /><br />It sure would be cool if we could leave our myopic provincial attitudes behind and go forth into space as "humans". <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>
 
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<blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>I don't think you will see Canada have the money to go in space by it self. <p><hr /></p></p></blockquote><br /><br />I guess in the future you could charter a space flight. So Canada won't necessarily need to make any ships, just charter one. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#0000ff"><em>"SCE to AUX" - John Aaron, curiosity pays off</em></font></p> </div>
 
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