David Saint-Jacques
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He took to the International Space Station in December 2018 as Flight Engineer on Expeditions 57, 58, and 59; he returned to Earth on June 25, 2019.
Personal life
Saint-Jacques was born in Quebec City and raised in Montreal. Saint-Jacques is married to Dr. Véronique Morin and has three children. He is a lifelong climber, hiker, cyclist, skier, and sailor. He also holds a commercial pilot license. He speaks French and English fluently, and he has a basic knowledge of Russian, Spanish, and Japanese.
Astronaut career
After a lengthy process selection process attended by 5,351 candidates, Saint-Jacques was selected as one of two CSA astronaut positions in May 2009 and moved to Houston to be one of 14 people in the 20th NASA astronaut class. He then graduated from Astronaut Candidate Training, which included scientific and technological briefings, intensive training in International Space Station technologies, extravehicular fitness (EVA), robotics, environmental monitoring, T-38 flight training, Russian language, and wilderness survival training. He has been assigned to the Astronaut Office's Robotics Branch since graduation.
During the NEEMO 15 undersea exploration mission from October 17 to 2011, NASA announced on September 19, 2011 that Saint-Jacques would act as an aquanaut aboard the Aquarius underwater laboratory. The mission, which was delayed by stormy weather and high tides, began on October 20, 2011. Saint-Jacques and his crewmates officially became aquanauts on the afternoon of October 21, having spent more than 24 hours submerged. NEEMO 15 was cancelled early on October 26 due to Hurricane Rina's approach.
Saint-Jacques was the first cadet to ESA CAVES training in Sardinia in 2013, alongside Soichi Nogensen, Nikolai Tikhonov, Andrew Feustel, and Michael Fincke.
Saint-Jacques was chosen as a member of ISS Expedition 58/59, which was expected to begin in May 2016.
Saint-Jacques, along with commander Oleg Kononenko and fellow flight engineer Anne McClain, launched the Soyuz MS-11 on December 3rd, 2018. He was a member of the Expedition 57 crew for two weeks before transferring to Expedition 58, which officially began on December 20, 2018. Saint-Jacques, Kononenko, and McClain were all relocated to Expedition 59 on March 14, 2019 with the arrival of Soyuz MS-12.
Saint-Jacques conducted his first spacewalk on April 8, 2019, becoming the fourth Canadian explorer to participate in an EVA, and the first to do so in 12 years. The spacewalk took about seven hours.
On June 24, 2019, Saint-Jacques, McClain, and Kononenko all returned to Earth on board Soyuz MS-11.
Education and earlier career
Saint-Jacques received a Bachelor's degree in Engineering Physics from École polytechnique de Montréal, a sister university of Université de Montréal, where he graduated in 1993. He earned his PhD in astrophysics from the University of Cambridge's Cavendish Astrophysics Group in 1998. Saint-Jacques completed postdoctoral work at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan between 1999 and 2001, where he worked on the establishment and application of the Mitaka Infrared Interferometer in Japan and the Subaru Telescope Adaptive Optics System in Hawaii. He received a Doctor of Medicine degree from Université Laval in 2005 and completed a Family medicine residency at McGill University (2007) (specializing in first-line, isolated medical practice).
His broad academic experience includes engineering, astrophysics, and medical education, as well as medical research in France and Hungary. Saint-Jacques is a Life Fellow at the Collège des médecins du Québec, Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec, International Society for Optical Engineering, and the Cambridge Philosophical Society as a Life Fellow. Saint-Jacques started working at Lariboisière Hospital in 1996 as a biomedical engineer, assisting in the creation of radiological devices for angiography and image analysis algorithms of cineangiography.
His research ranged from 1994 to 1998, and included theoretical research on astronomical observation, fabrication, and commissioning of instruments for the Cambridge Optical Aperture Synthesis Telescope and the William Herschel Telescope in the Canary Islands. During the course of this study, John E. Baldwin, the Cavendish Astrophysics Group, Corpus Christi College, and the Cambridge Philosophical Society sponsored him. He joined the Astrophysics group at Université de Montréal's Department de physique in 2001.
Saint-Jacques, a medical doctor and the Co-chief of Medicine at Inuulitsivik Health Centre in Puvirnituq, Quebec, before joining the Canadian Space Program, was a medical doctor and the Co-chief of Medicine at Inuvitivik Health Centre in Puvirnituq, Quebec, where he has been active in the Canadian Space Program since 2007. He also served as a Clinical Faculty Lecturer at McGill University's Faculty of Medicine, supervising medical students in Nunavik.
Honors and awards
- Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society
- Gold Medal of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society
- Special distinction from the Collège des médecins du Québec
- Officier of the National Order of Quebec (2020)