David Saint-Jacques says family is biggest priority forward of space hire mission

The initial Canadian wanderer set to conduct to a International Space Station given Chris Hadfield is in a final stretch.

If all goes as planned, on Dec. 20, David Saint-Jacques, along with NASA wanderer Anne McClain and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, will be on the way to a ISS as Expedition Crew 58/59.

The three-person organisation is scheduled to launch aboard a Russian Soyuz booster from a Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

At a news conference on Thursday afternoon, Saint-Jacques said the biggest partial of his credentials as he gets prepared to depart is creation certain his family is OK. He pronounced he wants to make certain all in his life is in sequence before he leaves to spend 6 months in what he called a “very distant place.”

The 48-year-old wanderer is a father of 3 children: two boys, aged 7 and five, and a two-year-old girl.

Saint-Jacques combined his space colleagues are also meditative of their families, with only over 3 months left before they leave.

“This is a outrageous opportunity, a outrageous payoff to do this on interest of all Canadians, to leave world Earth to go live on a spaceship,” Saint-Jacques told CBC News in December.

During a six-month mission, Saint-Jacques will take partial in roughly 250 investigate and record experiments.

An engineer, astrophysicist and family alloy from Saint-Lambert, Que., he will be Canada’s ninth wanderer from a Canadian Space Agency to conduct into space. 

Saint-Jacques has some large boots to fill.

In Dec 2012, Hadfield launched to ISS, kicking off 5 months of pity a knowledge by posting photos, tweeting and display a open what vital in space was unequivocally like. He became a worldwide luminary and given timid in 2013, he has continued to do open outreach.

“Canadians have so many reasons to be unapproachable of a contributions to a space program,” Saint-Jacques said. “We are partial of that bar of nations that are pulling a bounds of humanity.”

With files from The Canadian Press

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