KIDS QUIZ
SPACE EXPLORATION
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Canadarm
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Annek I
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Algonquin
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Hadfield IV
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Detailed explanation-1: -Canadarm is Canada’s most famous technological achievement in the field of robotics. This robotic arm supported U.S. space shuttle missions for 30 years ( 1981 – 2011 ).
Detailed explanation-2: -1974. NASA awards Canada the responsibility of designing, developing, and building the Shuttle Remote Manipulator System (SRMS) for the Space Shuttle. The result is Canadarm, the 15-metre robotic arm. Canada also invests $100 million for its development contributing the first unit to the space shuttle program.
Detailed explanation-3: -Seven Canadian Space Agency astronauts have completed nine missions aboard the ISS . The first module of the ISS was launched on November 20, 1998 . It takes 15 minutes for the Station to cross Canada. Every day, the ISS circles the Earth 16 times, a distance roughly equal to a round trip to the Moon!