Canada selects two new astronauts
Posted: Thu, May 14, 2009, 7:46 AM ET (1146 GMT)
The Canadian Space Agency announced Wednesday that it has chosen two new astronauts for its modest astronaut corps. CSA selected Jeremy Hansen and David Saint-Jacques from a pool of over 5,300 applicants, making them the 11th and 12th Canadians to join that country's astronaut corps. Hansen is a fighter pilot with degrees is space sciences and physics, while Saint-Jacques is a medical doctor who also has a PhD in astrophysics. The two will begin formal astronaut training later this year at NASA's Johnson Space Center, and before that support two other Canadian astronauts on their upcoming missions: Bob Thirsk, who is flying to the ISS on Soyuz mission later this month; and Julie Payette, a member of the STS-127 shuttle crew scheduled for launch in June.
The Canadian Space Agency announced Wednesday that it has chosen two new astronauts for its modest astronaut corps. CSA selected Jeremy Hansen and David Saint-Jacques from a pool of over 5,300 applicants, making them the 11th and 12th Canadians to join that country's astronaut corps. Hansen is a fighter pilot with degrees is space sciences and physics, while Saint-Jacques is a medical doctor who also has a PhD in astrophysics. The two will begin formal astronaut training later this year at NASA's Johnson Space Center, and before that support two other Canadian astronauts on their upcoming missions: Bob Thirsk, who is flying to the ISS on Soyuz mission later this month; and Julie Payette, a member of the STS-127 shuttle crew scheduled for launch in June.
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