Grade 6 Space Unit

a person who is trained to travel in a spacecraft.

With the person sitting next to you, make a list of the type of training and education one would need to become an astronaut

Canadians in Space

For the last three decades Canada has played a very important role in space exploration. Besides developing the robotic arm – Canadarm,and other technologies, Canada has many astronauts in space playing very key roles.

Marc Garneau

Garneau was the first Canadia in space, and took part in three flights aboard NASA Space shuttles. He was the president of the Canadian Space Agency from 2001 to 2006, and in 2003 was installed as the ninth Chancellor of Carleton University in Ottawa. He is now in politics

He was Canada's first astronaut and he became the first Canadian in space in October 1984.

In 1984 he was seconded to the new Canadian Astronaut Program (CAP), one of seven chosen from over 4,000 applicants.

He flew on the shuttle Challenger, STS-41-G from October 5 to 13, 1984 as payload specialist.

He was promoted to captain in 1986 and left the Navy in 1989 to become deputy director of the CAP. In 1992-93 he underwent further training to become a mission specialist.

He worked as CAPCOM for a number of shuttle flights and was on two further flights himself - STS-77 (May 19 to 29, 1996) and STS-97 (to the ISS, November 30 to December 11, 2000). He has logged almost 678 hours in space and is now retired as an astronaut.

Garneau was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1984 in recognition of his role as the first Canadian astronaut. He was promoted the rank of Companion within the order in 2003 for his extensive work with Canada's space program.He was also awarded the Canadian Forces Decoration for 12 years of honourable service with the Canadian Forces.In August 2003, Garneau was made a Companion of the Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian honour. He is also honoured with a high school named after him, Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute in Toronto [3] and É.S.P. Marc-Garneau[4] in Trenton, Ontario.Garneau is also the Honorary Captain of the Royal Canadian Sea Cadets. In addition, No. 599 Royal Canadian Air Cadets squadron is named in his honour.

Roberta Bondar

First Canadian Woman in space

Roberta Bondar, OC, O.Ont, FRCP(C), FRSC (born December 4, 1945, in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario) is Canada's first female astronaut and the first neurologist in space.

Following more than a decade as NASA's head of space medicine, Bondar became a consultant and speaker in the business, scientific and medical communities.

Bondar began astronaut training in 1984, and in 1992 was designated a prime Payload Specialist for the first International Microgravity Laboratory Mission (IML-1). Bondar flew on the NASA Space Shuttle Discovery during Mission STS-42, January 22–30, 1992, during which she performed experiments in the Spacelab.[1][2] Back on Earth, Bondar led an international team of researchers at NASA for more than a decade,examining data obtained from astronauts on 24 space missions to better understand the mechanisms underlying the body's ability to recover from exposure to space.She is now a professor in medicine at McMaster Univeristy