Chris Austin Hadfield is a Canadian retired astronaut,engineer,fighter pilot,musician,and writer. The first Canadian to perform extravehicular activity in outer space,he has flown two Space Shuttle missions and also served as commander of the International Space Station (ISS). Prior to his career as an astronaut,he served in the Canadian Armed Forces for 25 years as an Air Command fighter pilot.
RADARSAT-1 was Canada's first commercial Earth observation satellite. It utilized synthetic aperture radar (SAR) to obtain images of the Earth's surface to manage natural resources and monitor global climate change. As of March 2013,the satellite was declared non-operational and is no longer collecting data.
Joseph Jean-Pierre Marc Garneau is a retired Canadian Member of Parliament,retired Royal Canadian Navy officer and former astronaut who served as a Cabinet minister from 2015 to 2021. A member of the Liberal Party,Garneau was the minister of foreign affairs from January to October 2021 and minister of transport from November 2015 to January 2021. He was an MP in Westmount,Montreal for 15 years.
The Canadian Space Agency is the national space agency of Canada,established in 1990 by the Canadian Space Agency Act.
Julie Payette is a Canadian engineer,scientist and former astronaut who served from 2017 to 2021 as Governor General of Canada,the 29th since Canadian Confederation.
Robert Brent "Bob" Thirsk,is a Canadian retired engineer and physician,and a former Canadian Space Agency astronaut. He holds the Canadian record for the most time spent in space. He became an officer of the Order of Canada (OC) in 2013 and was named to the Order of British Columbia (OBC) in 2012.
Dafydd Rhys "David" Williams is a Canadian physician,public speaker,author and retired CSA astronaut. Williams was a mission specialist on two Space Shuttle missions. His first spaceflight,STS-90 in 1998,was a 16-day mission aboard Space Shuttle Columbia dedicated to neuroscience research. His second flight,STS-118 in August 2007,was flown by Space Shuttle Endeavour to the International Space Station. During that mission he performed three spacewalks,becoming the third Canadian to perform a spacewalk and setting a Canadian record for total number of spacewalks. These spacewalks combined for a total duration of 17 hours and 47 minutes.
Saint-Hubert is a borough in the city of Longueuil,located in the Montérégie region of Quebec,Canada. It had been a separate city prior to January 1,2002,when it along with several other neighbouring south shore municipalities were merged into Longueuil. Saint-Hubert had a population of 78,336 in 2006. The area of the borough is 65.98 km2 (25.48 sq mi). Longueuil's city hall is now located in Saint-Hubert. Saint-Hubert is located about 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) from downtown Montreal.
SCISAT-1 is a Canadian satellite designed to make observations of the Earth's atmosphere. Its main instruments are an optical Fourier transform infrared spectrometer,the ACE-FTS Instrument,and an ultraviolet spectrophotometer,MAESTRO. These devices record spectra of the Sun,as sunlight passes through the Earth's atmosphere,making analyses of the chemical elements of the atmosphere possible.
RADARSAT-2 is a Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Earth observation satellite. It launched on 14 December 2007 aboard a Starsem Soyuz-FG rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome,Kazakhstan. The spacecraft is owned by MDA
RADARSAT is a Canadian remote sensing Earth observation satellite program overseen by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). The program has consisted of:
David Saint-Jacques is a Canadian astronaut with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). He is also an astrophysicist,engineer,and a physician.
The Canadian Astronaut Corps is a unit of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) that selects,trains,and provides astronauts as crew members for U.S. and Russian space missions. The corps has four active members,able to serve on the International Space Station (ISS).
Dr. Andrew Frank Jorgensen Abercromby is a scientist and biomedical engineer who designs and tests spacesuit systems and exercise countermeasures for future exploration of the Solar System. He is employed by NASA as Lead of the Human Physiology,Performance,Protection &Operations (H-3PO) Laboratory at Johnson Space Center in Houston,Texas. As an aquanaut,Abercromby served as a member of the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations 14 crew. Abercromby has more than fifteen years of experience working in the Human Health and Performance (HH&P) and Engineering Directorates at the Johnson Space Center. He is married with two daughters.
Isabelle Hudon is a Canadian businesswoman and diplomat. She is currently the President and CEO of the Business Development Bank of Canada. From 2017-2021,she served as Canadian Ambassador to France and Monaco. She was the first female Canadian Ambassador to France. Previously,she served as Executive Chair,Quebec and Senior Vice-President,Client Solutions for Sun Life Financial.
Jennifer Anne "Jenni" MacKinnon Sidey is a Canadian astronaut,engineer,and academic. She was selected by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) as one of the two members of the 2017 CSA Group alongside Joshua Kutryk. In 2023,CSA assigned her to be Jeremy Hansen's backup for the Artemis II lunar flyby mission. As of the 2023 CSA Artemis announcement,she goes by her married name,Jenni Gibbons.
Joshua Kutryk is a Canadian astronaut,fighter pilot and engineer. He was selected by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) one of the two members of the 2017 CSA Group alongside Jenni Sidey.
Annie Koutrakis is a Canadian Liberal politician who was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of Canada to represent the federal riding of Vimy during the 2019 Canadian federal election,and was re-elected in the 2021 Canadian Federal Election. Koutrakis has served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Transport,and as of September 2023,now serves as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Tourism and the Minister responsible for the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the regions of Quebec. Prior to becoming a Member of Parliament,she worked in investment firms for 30 years.
Sarah Connoran Gallagher is a professor of astronomy at the University of Western Ontario,where her research focuses on active galaxies,black holes and compact galaxy groups. From 2018 to 2022,she also served as Science Advisor to the Canadian Space Agency.
Lisa Campbell is a Canadian lawyer and civil servant who has been the president of the Canadian Space Agency since 2020.
