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David Saint-Jacques will be the next Canadian astronaut in space
Published: 15 July 2016
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David Saint-Jacques, MedResident '07, will be the next Canadian astronaut to take part in a space mission.
He is scheduled to travel to space in November, 2018, for a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS). An adjunct professor in Â鶹AV's Department of Family Medicine, he supervised medical trainees in Nunavik as a Â鶹AV clinical faculty lecturer.
He will be the fourth Â鶹AV graduate to journey to the ISS, joining fellow astronauts Julie Payette, BEng'86, DSc'03, Robert Thirsk, MDCM'82, and Dave Williams, BSc'76, MDCM'83, MSc'83, DSc'07.
