Oct 9 1958

From The Space Library

The first meeting of the Canadian Aeronautical Institute's Astronautical section takes place at the RACF Officer's Mess on Gloucester Street in Ottawa. The executive committee is installed and three speakers deliver papers.

• The Clock Paradox by W.F. Campbell (National Research Council)
• Propulsion Systems for Space Travel by Dr H.S. Ribner (UTIA)
• Guidance and Control by R.D. Richmond and D. Bogdanoff (Canadair)

This was the inauguration of Canada's third astronautical organisation. A year earlier the Canadian Astronautical Society had been formed in Downsview Ontario and the Astronautical Society of Canada also began in Montreal.

First Canadian Aeronautical Institute - Astronautics Committee October 1958.

D. Bogandoff, Dr. H.S. Ribner, W.F. Campbell, J.A. van der Blick