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Mr. Frank Russell Thurston

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Order of Canada

  • Officer of the Order of Canada

    Awarded on: 1982-06-21
    Invested on: 1982-10-20
    In 1947 he joined the National Research Council, becoming in 1959 the founding director of the National Aeronautical Establishment. He engineered the Canada-United States joint project, which resulted in the success of Canadarm in the third flight of the space shuttle Columbia.