Many years ago, I was at an international space security conference and one of the British organizers made a crack about having a Canadian astronaut as the keynote speaker, because what does Canada know about space. The keynote speaker was Chris Hadfield who had just returned from his second trip to space to install Canadarm2. That organizer had to eat his words. lol
Born in Montreal, Canada, NASA engineer, Farah Alibay conceived and successfully operated an helicopter robot on Mars in 2021. Also born in Quebec, astronaut David St-Jacques, accomplished a 203-day mission in space in 2019.
There were many Canadian Engineers that went to NASA after the Avro Arrow was cancelled. The had a very large impact on the Gemini and Apollo space programs. At the beginning around 1/3 of the NASA engineers were Canadian.
We've had a relationship with NASA since 1959. A Canadian was made Director of the Gemini Rocket Program, and Canadian aeronautical engineers conceived of establishing an orbit around the moon and sending an exploration module down to the surface. The landing gear had to be made in Montreal.
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Loved the nose of the Arrow on display when I went to the Ottawa aviation museum again 2 weeks ago. There was a lot of Cmdr Hadfield on the wall I'm the space section.
A little known fact is that the landing legs on the lunar module were built by Heroux Aerospace (now Heroux-Devtek) of Longueuil (Montreal), Quebec. Neil Armstrong exited the module 6 hours and 39 minutes after landing, so for that brief moment in time Canada was on the moon before the USA. Hooray for us!!! lol.
I live a 10 minutes walk from Héroux and a 15 minutes drive to the Canadian Space Agency! Making Longueuil proud. I was born in 1966 so you can Imagine it was a big deal in 1969 . I have a faint memory of it.
Canada's contribution to space is largely glossed over. 3rd nation is space is quite an achievement as are the 3 robotic arms. Something not touched upon in the video are the 1000s of Canadian engineers that re-emerged at US and British aerospace companies with the termination of the 1958 AVRO Arrow fighter get program. They helped build Boeing, Lockheed, and develop the Concord (there's a reason it looks like the Arrow) but they also surfaced at NASA helping build the US space shuttle program.
Canada, thanks for all you have done for the advancement of science and space exploration. You have quietly given remarkable advancements to the world of science.
@@dax9431 For more than a week following 9/11, Canadian people gave more generously than anyone expected or could ever repay. And they went without themselves to do so. Humble? Oh, yes. However, your last statement shows a touch of arrogance and national pride. It is rightly deserved and should not be denied, but should also be admitted. I believe there is such a thing as humble pride. As an 80 year old retired RN and proff of anthropology, that is my wisdom for the day. At age 80 my humble is all used up.
SCTV's Bob and Doug MacKenzie mentioned the Canadarm. They said that if a Canadian invented it, you just know it's got to be able to open a beer. "Which means those guys are having a beauty time up there in space, eh!"
Jeremy Hansen is set to be the next Canadian in space. In 2025, Artemis II will embark on a mission around the moon, the first Canadian to ever do this! Very proud of Jeremy and all of our humble astronauts who've contributed to the space program. It would be great if you could do a reaction video on Jeremy as well. Thanks Mert!
Canada will thus become the 2nd nation in human history to send a person into lunar orbit. Kinda wish he was actually landing on it. For now that honour looks like it will go to Japan.
My aunt worked at Spar aerospace in the 1980s. As a kid she took me on a tour once and it was impressive even if I didn't really understand what was going on at the time. There was actually a Canadarm build for each of the space shuttles, it's incredible and a fascinating tidbit is that it won't work in atmosphere. It's just too heavy and needs the weightlessness to be able to function. I was privileged to get to see and touch one (wasn't supposed to touch, but couldn't help myself) when I was able to attend a Shuttle decommissioning event at MDA in Toronto in 2011. I also got to call Marc Garneau a colleague for 4 years even if we sat on different parts of the political spectrum. He autographed a Lego Shuttle that I have and I got to debate him over a number of different issues. One of my proudest fights was to save the funding for RCM, The Radarsat Constellation Mission. Watching it launch into space with my kids is a moment I'll never forget. Space is aspirational and doing things in space requires large investments, but it often yields incredible returns.
Canada has a L O N G history in robotics. As an 11 yr old kid, I was part of a group of students who got to spend an afternoon with scientist and explorers and the thing I remember most was being told that "if we wanted to guarantee ourselves a bright future that we should consider the field of robotics". I'm now 66 yrs old an 'they' were right.
In the 50s, Avro Canada designed and was building an interceptor aircraft to defend against bomber attacks by Russia. In 1959, the project was scrapped and all employees were terminated. Immediately 30+ of their engineers (Canadian and British) were recruited by NASA. They were classified as 'foreign alien scientists'. They worked on space programs including The Apollo Program.Two of them were honoured on Canadian postage stamps for their contributions to the Apollo Project.
A great little video by Chris Hadfield. I didn't know that he's also a successful author, until I received his book, The Apollo Murders, as a Christmas present. It's a great spy thriller, which was followed by The Defector in the same genre. Both great and easy reads.
The builders of the Canada Arm 1, 2 and soon Canadarm 3 will be deployed too, by MDA Space (aka MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates). Actually got back the original Canadarm "gripper hand" back from SpaceX. Today they are building huge satellite constellations 100+ for Telesat. The future of communications and navigation networks out of Montreal.
I remember that time too. Someone mentioned the long rods on the landing gear touched the moon before Neil Armstrong. They were made out of nickel from good old Sudbury!
When I was in grade 4 in the early 90’s my science test had a bonus question : what was Canadas biggest contribution to the world’s space program. 40 years later almost and I still remember it 😂 this is a fact I’ll never forget. A Canadian also invented basketball (ssshhhh don’t tell Americans).
That was an interesting and informative video, indeed. I think one of the things Chris Hadfield is well known for in Canada is his enjoyment of promoting interest in science, space, and space exploration and innovation to school children. With its animation style, simple language, etc., I feel this video is an ideal one to introduce the topic to children, but doesn't talk down to them. Also, I couldn't help but notice your mispronunciation of CANADARM, which is a very common mistake. It's all one word, just adding the RM to the end of the word CANADA. Therefore, as Chris states in the video, it's pronunciation is not CANADA-ARM (4 syllables), but rather CANADARM (3 syllables).
Due to canadas experience with robotics in space, Canada was also entrusted with building the ingenuity drone that was sent to mars. The drone was only supposed to have a few test flights to test if flight is even possi le on mars, but it was so successful that it would up having over a hundred flights. This was the most recent contribution the CSA has made to space exploration.
When you see documentaries about projects like Concorde or the Blackbird aircraft, they really stress the problems of atmospheric conditions, even though they are mostly talking about static surfaces. If you take those as your base level, and then consider that the space arm has to have fully articulated bearings, joints and motors operating in such harsh conditions, it’s amazing. Even more amazing when you consider that the designers had to remove most concepts of physics that engineers rely on. On an airplane, control services will return to position from the forces of passing air - the same with a ship. And on land a crane need only overcome gravity. It lifts until you cut input and then gravity stops it, and gravity will return the load to the ground when released. In space these forces don’t exist, an object set in motion one way mechanically, must then be restrained with forces applied in the opposite direction to stop it. It is far more complicated than you might initially think.
Another Canadian invention which makes use of joints under extreme conditions is the Newt Suit. An invention considered significant enough to the Scottish oil industry, that at least one is a museum in Aberdeen. Sometimes described as a "wearable submarine", they are used by civilian operations as well as military around the world.
The first trip to the moon wouldn't have happened without Canada. The engineers at NASA could not design and build the feet of the lunar lander. Finally, the job was given to Canada and we succeeded. So, the machine that sits on the moon, and will forevermore, sits on Canadian feet. 😅
The Canada Arm has gotten us a seat on the Artemis mission, return to the moon. The future moon base will need to be constructed with it, making Canada the second nation to walk on the moon. Japan has recently inked a similar deal for a Toyota moon buggy, but they will need to train with NASA first.
Great feedback in the comments on all the other information about Canada and space exploration - a rich, proud and ongoing legacy for Canada. On a very personal note: after the launch of the first Canadian satellite "Alouette" (mentioned in the video), came a series of geostationary communications satellites from 1972 to 2013. As the first one in 1972 was to help with communication with the great north, it was given the name of "Anik" ("brother" in Inuktitut). I heard a few jokes about it in the work place through the years when some of these satellites made headlines ... all the way to sitting in a National Defence boardroom with a big poster of it on the wall... no, I wasn't named after it, as I was correcting my co-workers, given I was a few years older, must have been named after me ;)
We are going to be the second nation to go to the moon in late 2024 when Artemis returns to the moon. We were integral to the original NASA, and the space race and space is important to our pride as a country.
There is a true Canadian story of a military aircraft designed and built in Canada called "the Arrow". It is sometimes difficult to separate fact from fiction - there are even stories of one having been 'stolen' by the team who built them and flown to a secret location. The general story is that a Canadian company built a plane that was decades ahead of its time, its capabilities leaving any other plane in the dust. There is no doubt that a plane was built, and there is considerable evidence that the US may have used pressure to have the project cancelled. What we do know, is that when the project was cancelled - and the planes were cut up and destroyed - most of their engineering team was snapped up by Grumman, and there they designed and built the lunar module and lander for the moon landings.
They completely skipped over all the Avro Arrow engineers that worked on the Apollo program. See if you can find some video on the Avro Arrow. An amazing jet built before its time. Also check out Chris Hadfield singing Space Oddity by David Bowie.
Look at Fighter Jets . We had the Arrow . We gave it away . It was the Best at the Time . The Canadarm was designed for Interstellar Hand Jobs . We lost a lot during testing . Our Circumsections are Great !
Why did they leave out that 12 scientists from Canada`s Avro Arrow jet plane project went on to work at NASA during the 50`s, 60`s and 70`s. Incomplete documentary/ animation.
Canadians are humble people, we don’t need the accolades and recognition but we are happy to get them. Canada looked where we were needed and filled those needs without any self promotion and now our neighbours depend on us! It won’t be long until we could dominate in space if we wanted to.
@@billfarley9167 I think that is our essence. We're humble so we don't spend our money trying to prove we're the biggest or best. But when something meaningful needs to be done, we just get on with it and do it. Our military is a good metaphor. We don't spend anything on it and it looks pretty pathetic in peacetime, but I like to think when it really counts there we are doing the job... no need to thank us.
Canadarm is a pretty narrow slice of the robotics field. Boston Dynamics, as an example, works on a much wider variety of projects in the robotics field. Another example: Intuitive Surgical (also in USA) and its Da Vinci robotic surgery used in SAVING LIVES.
We all used to love Julie Payette untill she was name Governer General and had to resigned in a scandal for creating a super toxic enviroment and missusing public funds :(
there almost 3000 not canadian on youtube who talks about canada, i think it's only to get some view at the beginning i suppose it was to be difference, but now they are too many it's like a joke ;)
Canada has achieved an impact on the world that is above our weight or size of country in medicine, space, nuclear energy, hydro generation or peace keeping. Canada is a pretty little (big) good place to live too.
@@rudolfpunt3286 If you start your comment with "Hey Mert" you might get the answer o\you're looking for. As it stands it's an open question to anyone who has a love of Canada.
@@iancanuckistan2244 well since it’s his channel it’s a given and not some troll. And yes I am a Canadian immigrant and a proud citizen I love his this channel, though Rick Mercer not at all; he is a pompous f#$kwad.
Canada is not a country of people that blow their own horn. There are far too many achievements by Canadians to list here but a modicum of research will keep you reading for a very long time.
Without a rocket or a space shuttle, there's no Canadarm in space. NASA and Space Ex are where the action is. USA! 12 Americans have walked on the moon. The satellite Voyager 1 has gone beyond Pluto. A rover on Mars has launched drone helicopters.
Many years ago, I was at an international space security conference and one of the British organizers made a crack about having a Canadian astronaut as the keynote speaker, because what does Canada know about space. The keynote speaker was Chris Hadfield who had just returned from his second trip to space to install Canadarm2. That organizer had to eat his words. lol
Born in Montreal, Canada, NASA engineer, Farah Alibay conceived and successfully operated an helicopter robot on Mars in 2021. Also born in Quebec, astronaut David St-Jacques, accomplished a 203-day mission in space in 2019.
There were many Canadian Engineers that went to NASA after the Avro Arrow was cancelled. The had a very large impact on the Gemini and Apollo space programs. At the beginning around 1/3 of the NASA engineers were Canadian.
We've had a relationship with NASA since 1959. A Canadian was made Director of the Gemini Rocket Program, and Canadian aeronautical engineers conceived of establishing an orbit around the moon and sending an exploration module down to the surface. The landing gear had to be made in Montreal.
Loved the nose of the Arrow on display when I went to the Ottawa aviation museum again 2 weeks ago.
There was a lot of Cmdr Hadfield on the wall I'm the space section.
My dad worked on the Arrow and turned down a job in the US
I have also heard we helped build the lunar landers and rovers that are still on the moon to this day
My late Uncle actually worked on the Canadarm! I remember him telling me stories as a kid when he did some trips to NASA regarding it.
A little known fact is that the landing legs on the lunar module were built by Heroux Aerospace (now Heroux-Devtek) of Longueuil (Montreal), Quebec. Neil Armstrong exited the module 6 hours and 39 minutes after landing, so for that brief moment in time Canada was on the moon before the USA. Hooray for us!!! lol.
I live a 10 minutes walk from Héroux and a 15 minutes drive to the Canadian Space Agency! Making Longueuil proud. I was born in 1966 so you can Imagine it was a big deal in 1969 . I have a faint memory of it.
@@nathalieplum2137I was born in 1953 so I remember it very well, watched it on live TV.
Chris Hatfield is an absolute gem!
That's the kind of thing that makes me really proud to be a Canadian!
Canada's contribution to space is largely glossed over. 3rd nation is space is quite an achievement as are the 3 robotic arms. Something not touched upon in the video are the 1000s of Canadian engineers that re-emerged at US and British aerospace companies with the termination of the 1958 AVRO Arrow fighter get program. They helped build Boeing, Lockheed, and develop the Concord (there's a reason it looks like the Arrow) but they also surfaced at NASA helping build the US space shuttle program.
Canada, thanks for all you have done for the advancement of science and space exploration. You have quietly given remarkable advancements to the world of science.
The KEY word being 'quietly'. Unlike others, we are naturally humble.
@@dax9431 For more than a week following 9/11, Canadian people gave more generously than anyone expected or could ever repay. And they went without themselves to do so. Humble? Oh, yes. However, your last statement shows a touch of arrogance and national pride. It is rightly deserved and should not be denied, but should also be admitted. I believe there is such a thing as humble pride. As an 80 year old retired RN and proff of anthropology, that is my wisdom for the day. At age 80 my humble is all used up.
We are most proud of how kick ass we were in WW1&2. We no longer could be a major contributor to a world war like we used to.
SCTV's Bob and Doug MacKenzie mentioned the Canadarm. They said that if a Canadian invented it, you just know it's got to be able to open a beer. "Which means those guys are having a beauty time up there in space, eh!"
😂 👍🏻🤜🏻🤛🏻
Craig is married into my family. He is one of the people responsible for Canadarm, and I consider him a legit space scientist. So proud.
There was a sixty foot long circuit board in the Canada Arm that I made. It was very cool.
Jeremy Hansen is set to be the next Canadian in space. In 2025, Artemis II will embark on a mission around the moon, the first Canadian to ever do this! Very proud of Jeremy and all of our humble astronauts who've contributed to the space program. It would be great if you could do a reaction video on Jeremy as well. Thanks Mert!
Canada will thus become the 2nd nation in human history to send a person into lunar orbit. Kinda wish he was actually landing on it. For now that honour looks like it will go to Japan.
My aunt worked at Spar aerospace in the 1980s. As a kid she took me on a tour once and it was impressive even if I didn't really understand what was going on at the time. There was actually a Canadarm build for each of the space shuttles, it's incredible and a fascinating tidbit is that it won't work in atmosphere. It's just too heavy and needs the weightlessness to be able to function. I was privileged to get to see and touch one (wasn't supposed to touch, but couldn't help myself) when I was able to attend a Shuttle decommissioning event at MDA in Toronto in 2011. I also got to call Marc Garneau a colleague for 4 years even if we sat on different parts of the political spectrum. He autographed a Lego Shuttle that I have and I got to debate him over a number of different issues. One of my proudest fights was to save the funding for RCM, The Radarsat Constellation Mission. Watching it launch into space with my kids is a moment I'll never forget.
Space is aspirational and doing things in space requires large investments, but it often yields incredible returns.
Canada has a L O N G history in robotics. As an 11 yr old kid, I was part of a group of students who got to spend an afternoon with scientist and explorers and the thing I remember most was being told that "if we wanted to guarantee ourselves a bright future that we should consider the field of robotics". I'm now 66 yrs old an 'they' were right.
Good job dude. Canadians quietly doing their stuff.
In the 50s, Avro Canada designed and was building an interceptor aircraft to defend against bomber attacks by Russia. In 1959, the project was scrapped and all employees were terminated. Immediately 30+ of their engineers (Canadian and British) were recruited by NASA. They were classified as 'foreign alien scientists'. They worked on space programs including The Apollo Program.Two of them were honoured on Canadian postage stamps for their contributions to the Apollo Project.
This makes me proud to be Canadien. Thanks to you for showing this for person's that did not know this.
A great little video by Chris Hadfield. I didn't know that he's also a successful author, until I received his book, The Apollo Murders, as a Christmas present. It's a great spy thriller, which was followed by The Defector in the same genre. Both great and easy reads.
Yep, we Canadians are pretty proud of the Canadarm 1 &2, and generally of our astronauts! 🇨🇦❤️🇨🇦
The builders of the Canada Arm 1, 2 and soon Canadarm 3 will be deployed too, by MDA Space (aka MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates). Actually got back the original Canadarm "gripper hand" back from SpaceX. Today they are building huge satellite constellations 100+ for Telesat. The future of communications and navigation networks out of Montreal.
The landing gear on Apollo 11, which remains on the moon, was made in Canada.
I remember that time too. Someone mentioned the long rods on the landing gear touched the moon before Neil Armstrong. They were made out of nickel from good old Sudbury!
Yes, more precisely, it was made by Heroux Devtek in Longueil, on south shore of Montreal
Many of my university professors came from the Avro program or various other associated activities
They were all brilliant
When I was in grade 4 in the early 90’s my science test had a bonus question : what was Canadas biggest contribution to the world’s space program. 40 years later almost and I still remember it 😂 this is a fact I’ll never forget. A Canadian also invented basketball (ssshhhh don’t tell Americans).
The Barenaked Ladies did a fun song when Commander Hatfield was inducted into the Canadian Walk of Fame. You might want to check it out.
And Commander Hatfield was the first to make a music video in space 🎉!
Hey Mert, thanks for doing this. I am learning some things about my history along with you.
My parents were on a beach in Cuba and ran into the man who helped design the Canada Arm 2. They said he was so kind and had many stories
That was an interesting and informative video, indeed. I think one of the things Chris Hadfield is well known for in Canada is his enjoyment of promoting interest in science, space, and space exploration and innovation to school children. With its animation style, simple language, etc., I feel this video is an ideal one to introduce the topic to children, but doesn't talk down to them.
Also, I couldn't help but notice your mispronunciation of CANADARM, which is a very common mistake. It's all one word, just adding the RM to the end of the word CANADA. Therefore, as Chris states in the video, it's pronunciation is not CANADA-ARM (4 syllables), but rather CANADARM (3 syllables).
So proud of our Canadians! Feels good to watch them help build NASA over the years. ❤️🇨🇦
I can’t wait til you and your family come visit ❤🇨🇦
I'm in my 50s and never heard about us sending anything into space Neverland being 3rd to do it
You need to read more dude.
Due to canadas experience with robotics in space, Canada was also entrusted with building the ingenuity drone that was sent to mars. The drone was only supposed to have a few test flights to test if flight is even possi le on mars, but it was so successful that it would up having over a hundred flights. This was the most recent contribution the CSA has made to space exploration.
Awesome. I didn't know that. Thanks
Wow I'm born & raised in the nation's capital and I had no idea we were the third in space. I knew about the Canadarm though - it's in my lifetime.
Check out Chris Hadfield and his brother singing "In Canada" - for Canada Day maybe this July 1st!
I have never heard about Alouette ….Canadian for all 40years. The heck. After the Arm deep dive. ❤from 🇨🇦
When you see documentaries about projects like Concorde or the Blackbird aircraft, they really stress the problems of atmospheric conditions, even though they are mostly talking about static surfaces. If you take those as your base level, and then consider that the space arm has to have fully articulated bearings, joints and motors operating in such harsh conditions, it’s amazing. Even more amazing when you consider that the designers had to remove most concepts of physics that engineers rely on. On an airplane, control services will return to position from the forces of passing air - the same with a ship. And on land a crane need only overcome gravity. It lifts until you cut input and then gravity stops it, and gravity will return the load to the ground when released. In space these forces don’t exist, an object set in motion one way mechanically, must then be restrained with forces applied in the opposite direction to stop it. It is far more complicated than you might initially think.
Another Canadian invention which makes use of joints under extreme conditions is the Newt Suit. An invention considered significant enough to the Scottish oil industry, that at least one is a museum in Aberdeen. Sometimes described as a "wearable submarine", they are used by civilian operations as well as military around the world.
The first trip to the moon wouldn't have happened without Canada. The engineers at NASA could not design and build the feet of the lunar lander. Finally, the job was given to Canada and we succeeded. So, the machine that sits on the moon, and will forevermore, sits on Canadian feet. 😅
The big-wigs at NASA hated the fact that "CANADA" was printed on the CANADARM. It had to be there on contract, tho I think that contract is over now.
John Candy was the first Mog in...Spaceballs
yep that arm was built 40mins away from myself in Cambridge Ontario if i remember correctly
The Canada Arm has gotten us a seat on the Artemis mission, return to the moon. The future moon base will need to be constructed with it, making Canada the second nation to walk on the moon. Japan has recently inked a similar deal for a Toyota moon buggy, but they will need to train with NASA first.
when he did he sent a Pic of Nova Scotia . Thanks Chis
They're working on, or have completed the canadarm v3. I'm not sure if its finished or not yet.
the Canadarm was built at the ten do my street in my hometown and this list is incomplete, there is more to come
Great feedback in the comments on all the other information about Canada and space exploration - a rich, proud and ongoing legacy for Canada. On a very personal note: after the launch of the first Canadian satellite "Alouette" (mentioned in the video), came a series of geostationary communications satellites from 1972 to 2013. As the first one in 1972 was to help with communication with the great north, it was given the name of "Anik" ("brother" in Inuktitut). I heard a few jokes about it in the work place through the years when some of these satellites made headlines ... all the way to sitting in a National Defence boardroom with a big poster of it on the wall... no, I wasn't named after it, as I was correcting my co-workers, given I was a few years older, must have been named after me ;)
His son Evan Hadfield, has an amazing you tube channel.
We are going to be the second nation to go to the moon in late 2024 when Artemis returns to the moon. We were integral to the original NASA, and the space race and space is important to our pride as a country.
There is a true Canadian story of a military aircraft designed and built in Canada called "the Arrow". It is sometimes difficult to separate fact from fiction - there are even stories of one having been 'stolen' by the team who built them and flown to a secret location.
The general story is that a Canadian company built a plane that was decades ahead of its time, its capabilities leaving any other plane in the dust. There is no doubt that a plane was built, and there is considerable evidence that the US may have used pressure to have the project cancelled. What we do know, is that when the project was cancelled - and the planes were cut up and destroyed - most of their engineering team was snapped up by Grumman, and there they designed and built the lunar module and lander for the moon landings.
They completely skipped over all the Avro Arrow engineers that worked on the Apollo program. See if you can find some video on the Avro Arrow. An amazing jet built before its time. Also check out Chris Hadfield singing Space Oddity by David Bowie.
Unfortunately I think we are kinda overlooked because we obviously aren't sending our own ships into space we're seen as a tag long.
Look at Fighter Jets . We had the Arrow . We gave it away . It was the Best at the Time . The Canadarm was designed for Interstellar Hand Jobs . We lost a lot during testing . Our Circumsections are Great !
We got Bronze in the space race... not too shabby.
And what would a video about Canada in space be without Chris Hadfield rendition of Space Oddity. th-cam.com/video/XR5G5keqVt4/w-d-xo.html
Why did they leave out that 12 scientists from Canada`s Avro Arrow jet plane project went on to work at NASA during the 50`s, 60`s and 70`s. Incomplete documentary/ animation.
Canada also partners with NASA, European, Israel, Indian, and Japanese Space agencies and possibly other Space Agencies that I don't know about.
The Gemini program is full of physics. Mathematics from algebra to the Inuktitut
It isn’t called Canadian Arm for no reason. Canada has had a number of brilliant inventions/ designs , often they were taken over by other countries.
Canadians are humble people, we don’t need the accolades and recognition but we are happy to get them. Canada looked where we were needed and filled those needs without any self promotion and now our neighbours depend on us! It won’t be long until we could dominate in space if we wanted to.
I don't believe Canada could afford being number one in space.
@@billfarley9167 I think that is our essence. We're humble so we don't spend our money trying to prove we're the biggest or best. But when something meaningful needs to be done, we just get on with it and do it. Our military is a good metaphor. We don't spend anything on it and it looks pretty pathetic in peacetime, but I like to think when it really counts there we are doing the job... no need to thank us.
Canada is the quiet guy in the corner.
Yes we have done more in space than others know. Unfortunately the US ignores our advances and tech
Cheerleaders can have alot of influence, ok, so dont make fun of the canadian space agency.
Unlike other countries, Canada doesn't need a pat on the back everytime we do something special.
Let's geter done.
Nothing said about the ANik satellites?
If it weren’t for the CanadArm, the US would not have a space program.
Canadarm is a pretty narrow slice of the robotics field.
Boston Dynamics, as an example, works on a much wider variety of projects in the robotics field. Another example: Intuitive Surgical (also in USA) and its Da Vinci robotic surgery used in SAVING LIVES.
The Brits like to claim they were third with their American built satellite 🙄
We all used to love Julie Payette untill she was name Governer General and had to resigned in a scandal for creating a super toxic enviroment and missusing public funds :(
Where does your love for Canada come from?
there almost 3000 not canadian on youtube who talks about canada, i think it's only to get some view at the beginning i suppose it was to be difference, but now they are too many it's like a joke ;)
Canada has achieved an impact on the world that is above our weight or size of country in medicine, space, nuclear energy, hydro generation or peace keeping. Canada is a pretty little (big) good place to live too.
Duh! Known facts as a Canadian. WTF. It doesn’t answer my question to Mert
@@rudolfpunt3286 If you start your comment with "Hey Mert" you might get the answer o\you're looking for.
As it stands it's an open question to anyone who has a love of Canada.
@@iancanuckistan2244 well since it’s his channel it’s a given and not some troll. And yes I am a Canadian immigrant and a proud citizen
I love his this channel, though Rick Mercer not at all; he is a pompous f#$kwad.
Canada is not a country of people that blow their own horn. There are far too many achievements by Canadians to list here but a modicum of research will keep you reading for a very long time.
Without a rocket or a space shuttle, there's no Canadarm in space.
NASA and Space Ex are where the action is. USA!
12 Americans have walked on the moon. The satellite Voyager 1 has gone beyond Pluto. A rover on Mars has launched drone helicopters.