April 29, 2006 � Canada's national mint is recognizing the 5th anniversary of the country's major contribution to the International Space Station (ISS) and the astronaut who installed it with the issue of commemorative coins.
The second release in the
Royal Canadian Mint's (
RCM) Canadian Achievements series, the new coins celebrate the April 22, 2001 spacewalk by Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield as he attached the Canadarm2 robotic manipulator to the ISS. Working from the Space Shuttle Endeavour, Hadfield was the first from the nation to walk in space and his work was helped by the original Canadarm.
The
RCM coins, to be "launched" on May 15, will be sold in two editions.
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