Canadian Astronaut, Shuttle Veteran Marc Garneau Dies

NASA Canadian astronaut Marc Garneau operates the shuttle's Canadian-built robot arm during the STS-97 space station assembly mission in December 2000.

Canadian astronaut Marc Garneau operates a space shuttle's Canadian-built robot arm during the STS-97 space station assembly mission in December 2000.

Credit: NASA
Marc Garneau, who put Canada into the human spaceflight business with his October 1984 flight aboard NASA’s space shuttle Challenger, died June 4 at age 76. Garneau was among Canada’s first six astronauts selected in 1983, and the first to reach space as a payload specialist aboard STS-41G, the 13th...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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