Canadian NASA wanderer blasts off for space hire today
A NASA wanderer with ties to Canada heads to a International Space Station currently on a revisit that will final scarcely 6 months.
Andrew “Drew” Feustel, who has twin Canada-U.S. citizenship, is scheduled to blast off during 1:44 p.m. ET with associate NASA wanderer Ricky Arnold and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev.
The contingent will be launched atop a Soyuz rocket from a Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan — 8 months before Canadian Space Agency wanderer David Saint-Jacques heads off to a orbiting space laboratory in Nov for a six-month stay.
The Michigan-born Feustel met his destiny wife, Indira, a debate pathologist from eastern Ontario, during Indiana’s Purdue University.
The Soyuz MS-08 booster for a subsequent International Space Station (ISS) crew, consisting of astronauts Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold of a U.S and crewmate Oleg Artemyev of Russia, is carried on a launchpad forward of a arriving launch, during a Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan Mar 19, 2018. (Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters)
They married and came to Canada, and Queen’s University says he finished a PhD in geological sciences during a university in Kingston, Ont., in a 1990s.
The Queen’s Gazette says their dual children Ari and Aden, were innate in Kingston and that a family still has ties to a city.
It will be Feustel’s third moody into space, and his second to a space hire where he will also take over as commander in June.
In a new Facebook posting, Feustel pronounced his dual boys were both innate on a same date dual years apart: Apr 26.
A NASA wanderer autobiography says Feustel began his wanderer training when he reported to a Johnson Space Center in Houston in Aug 2000.
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