He was honoured with the Order of Canada in 1996 and was featured on a postage stamp.

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"If you want us to drop something on a postage stamp, by God we'll do it, " said Maj.

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Watching movies on a notebook was once considered a farcial novelty, not much better than viewing them on a postage stamp.

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Before then I could have written what I knew about it on the back of a postage stamp.

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On Wednesday, reporters sat waiting on benches in a postage-stamp-size memorial garden with a plaque dedicated to his older son.

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Spending a quarter of a century building something and then scuttling it looks bad, even if the useful science that has been done on board could be written up on the back of a postage stamp.

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Although a first class stamp was placed on each letter, it did not cover the total postage cost, so they were held at the sorting office by Royal Mail.

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