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International Space Station wins Aviation Week Laureate Award

On March 17, 2010, representatives from each of the five partners in the International Space Station Program were presented with Aviation Week's Laureate Award in the Space category. The nearly completed Space Station was lauded as "the model for international cooperation on future human exploration deeper into the Solar System." Canadian Space Station Program Manager Pierre Jean accepted the award on behalf of all Canadian Space Agency employees and partners in industry and academia.

The International Space Station is collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, the Russian Federal Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency. The orbiting laboratory is nearing completion and will mark the tenth anniversary of a continuous human presence in orbit in November 2010. Canada's contribution to the ISS is the Mobile Servicing System (Canadarm2, Dextre and the Mobile Base System), the sophisticated robotics suite that assembled the Station module by module, and performs ongoing maintenance in space. Canada's investment in the International Space Station gives Canadian scientists access to the unique environment aboard the ISS, and allows our country to send astronauts to space.

Congratulations to the thousands of women and men around the world who built the International Space Station!