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... to hedge their bets. Before they would consider an all-British space program they would test British experiments using rented space on American Atlas and Thor missiles; in essence following Canada' ... 03 002 Avro Gordon.jpg thumb right '''Announcement that Canada was buying F-104G from Lockheed (July 1959)''' The parliamentary opposition accused the government of buying an untested aircraft which ...

... been responsible for purchasing the F-104G from Lockheed for the German Air Force with the same catastrophic results, agreed to a European space program but wanted to buy "proven" American rockets ... his party had received at least $10M in bribes from Lockheed to purchase the F-104G. The massive scale of the Lockheed bribes would continue to have far reaching implications for years ... partner up on the Radarsat project in an attempt to once more create a major space technology alliance between their two countries. ---- '''Go to Chapter''' The Empire Strikes Out - Canada's ...

... , Lockheed, General Electronics and Matra. In April 1988 Britain's Thatcher government officially pulled out from Radarsat while in the midst of a spat with the rest of Europe regarding future space ... Franz Josef Strauss, the same German politician who had been accused of taking bribes from Lockheed to purchase the F-104G for the Luftwaffe in the early 1960s. In 1976 the ... was $39M per aircraft (in 1980), and the last quoted price (in 2015) for the Lockheed F-35 Joint Strike Fighter was $150M per aircraft. When factoring inflation and the overall ...

... be able to stage an elaborate live concert tour which they called the "Space Ritual". Space Ritual The Space Ritual concert tour allowed Calvert to fully explore his idea of a crew of ... and 1985. Calvert would release his own concept album "Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters" in 1973 based on the ill-fated Lockheed F-104 aircraft. This allowed Calvert to explore the world ...

Image:1960_Lockheed_Modular_1960.jpg 300px Diagram of Modular Space Station design by Saunders Kramer and Richard Byers (1960) Lockheed Category:Spacecraft

Image:Bucephalus_1964.jpg 300px Cutaway concept art of Lockheed Bucephalus space station (1964) Category:Spacecraft

... such a fate before. Image:1959-08-31_F104_Dronesmall.jpg thumb right '''Announcement that Lockheed F-104G converted to drone for target practice (August 1959)''' Meanwhile, the Hawker 1127, which ... - Part 8 by Robert Godwin 8 - The Empire Strikes Out - Canada's Defence & The Commonwealth Space Program - Part 9 by Robert Godwin 9 Footnotes note 1 Toronto Star Aug 31 ...

... to support studies leading to a robotic servicing mission for HST. NASA let contracts to Lockheed Martin to build a de-orbit module to fly to Hubble and to MacDonald Dettwiler ... account of the development of HST is based on Smith, The Space Telescope. note 4 National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Space Shuttle Mission STS-31 Press Kit (NASA, April 1990); Kathy Sawyer ...

... success in complex missions such as Phoenix. We also hear about space tourism and the “space billionaires” who are redefining what space travel might mean in future decades. In time, the successful pursuit ... included people from Goddard Space Flight Center, the Space Telescope Science Institute, the Lockheed Corporation, which was the HST prime contractor, and the EVA flight controllers at the Johnson Space Center. All of these ...

... U.S.A., out of the twenty major space companies in existence during the 1980s, only three ‘prime’ ones were left by 1997 (Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman). A similar consolidation took place in Europe in the 1990s, leading to the creation of two major space conglomerates that are currently operating ...

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