The Canadian Alouette women: reclaiming their space
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The starting block for the race to the moon is often recognized as the launch of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics’ (U.S.S.R) Sputnik satellite, in 1957, aboard an intercontinental ballistic missile. The histories of this race cannot, however, be ‘just’ about and by pioneering men. The overarching goal of this historical organization study is to consider gendered remembering and antenarratives with respect to Cold War space histories. We focus on women who contributed to the design, manufacturing and testing, launch and operation of Canadian Alouette satellites that marked Canada as the third space faring nation. We set out to answer the following questions: how are Canadian Alouette women remembered? And, what are some of the discursive processes involved in this gendered remembering? Our methodology is built on the generative moments heuristic, applied to archival documents and interviews with surviving members of the Alouette missions. With this work, we are contributing to the development of feminist historiography and to the undoing of silences.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.024 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.011 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".