The Complete Book of Spaceflight: From Apollo 1 to Zero Gravity

Caidin, Martin (1926–1997)
An American writer, pilot, and aerospace specialist. He
wrote more than 80 nonfiction books, mostly on aviation
and space exploration. His science fiction novel
Marooned (1964), about an attempt to rescue astronauts
trapped in orbit, was turned into a film of the same name
in 1969 and has been credited with inspiring the 1975
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. Caidin cofounded the
American Astronautical Society in 1953.
CALIPSO (Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared
Pathfinder Observations)
A satellite previously known as PICASSO-CENA that
will carry an array of spectral imaging instruments to
measure the chemical components of Earth’s atmosphere,
as well as a lidar system to track airborne water
vapor particles. It will fly in formation with the Cloudsat,
PARASOL, Aqua, and Aura satellites, which will
also study atmospheric and oceanic processes, thus
enabling a pooling of data. CALIPSO is a collaborative
project led by the Langley Research Center that involves
CNES (the French space agency), Ball Aerospace
& Technologies Corporation, Hampton University (Virginia),
and the Institut Pierre Simon Laplace. It is the
third selected mission in NASA’s ESSP (Earth System
Science Pathfinder) mission and is scheduled for launch
into a 705-km-high orbit, on the same Delta rocket as
Cloudsat, in April 2004.
Canada in space
See Alouette, Anik, Black Brant, Canadian Space
Agency, Canadian Space Society, CloudSat, ESA,
Marc Garneau, HARP, ISIS, MOST, Nimiq,
RADARSAT, and Remote Manipulator System.
Canadarm
See Remote Manipulator System.
Canadian Space Agency (CSA)
A federal organization, established in 1989, that contributes
to the development of the Canadian civil space
industry by procuring contracts from foreign space agencies
such as ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA.
CSA coordinates major Canadian space program activities
including the Canadian Astronaut Office, the David
Florida Laboratory (Canada’s facility for assembling,
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integrating, and testing spacecraft and other space hardware),
and Canadian contributions to the International
Space Station.
Canadian Space Society (CSS)
A federally incorporated nonprofit organization inspired
by the old L5 Society. Its main aim is to sponsor and
promote the involvement of Canadians in the development
of space. CSS publishes a newsletter titled The
Canadian Space Gazette, has organized several space conferences,
and has taken part in a number of space design
projects, most notably the development of a preliminary
design of a solar sail racing spacecraft under the Columbus
500 initiative in 1992.
Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex
One of three complexes around the world that make up
NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN). It is located at
Tidbinbilla, about 30 km southwest of the Australian
capital. The Canberra Space Centre at the Complex has a
piece of Moon rock weighing 142 g, presented to it by
Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex The Canberra
70-m antenna, with flags from the three Deep Space
Networks (in the United States, Australia, and Spain). NASA