Spaceflight and Other Stuff

[dewline]

The Ottawa Citizen published an opinion piece on Canadian plans for future space agency doings. I'm inclined to agree with much of the essay, save for "Theme 4" re: the International Space Station. I don't see why we shouldn't try for as much as possible at this point, both on our own and in concert with others.

Other stuff...

Dropped another load of magazines I don't need anymore at the OPL Main Branch's bookstore as a donation. Mostly, it was back issues of Wired with a smattering of other titles for variety's sake. I'm not entirely happy with my progress on this front, but eBay's just going to take too much time I need for other works.

Still looking for a regular day-job. I'm prepared to discuss privately - off-web - any and all reasonable leads.

More as it comes in...

Comments

[steve-roby.livejournal.com]

If I still worked at Telesat, I'd be shaking my head at the way nobody in Canada ever thinks of one of Canada's top space industry successes when they read thumbsuckers about Canada in space. Now, though, when there is no Telesat Canada any more, just Telesat, a subsidiary of the US company Space Systems Loral, with more than a quarter of its original Canadian work force laid off or forced into early retirement, it just seems to me that this kind of ignorance is exactly why there is no Telesat Canada now. If the media and government had been paying attention they'd never have let Telesat be sold.

[(Anonymous)]

I can't argue with that for a second. I'm not even sure we can say that we've learned from that error sufficiently re: MDA/Canadarm yet...

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Sorry, that was me just now.