Canadian NASA wanderer blasts off for space station

A NASA wanderer with ties to Canada bloody off for the International Space Station currently on a revisit that will final scarcely 6 months.

Andrew “Drew” Feustel, who has twin Canada-U.S. citizenship, bloody off at 1:44 p.m. ET Wednesday with associate NASA wanderer Ricky Arnold and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev.

U.S. wanderer Andrew Feustel, member of a categorical organisation to a International Space Station (ISS), attends a news discussion in Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Tuesday, Mar 20, 2018. This 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. (Dmitri Lovetsky/Associated Press)

The contingent 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.

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.

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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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