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Canadarm Research Paper

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The Canadarm (all five variants) had been on ninety flights to space, two of which resulted in the destruction of the Canadarms involved which were on the space shuttles Columbia and Challenger during their explosions. The Canadarm has completed many tasks such as setting and repairing satellites, supporting astronauts during spacewalks, loosening solar panels and knocking ice off of wastewater dumping vents. The first mission the Canadarm had been assigned was on the 13th of November 1981 for mission STS-2 where the space shuttle Columbia had first sent it into space, the Canadarm was only used to test all modes and to see the mobility in space and Astronaut Richard Truly had said “Okay, the arm is out for the first time...working great...

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