Marc Garneau

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Marc Garneau
Marc Garneau
Country: Canada
Organization: CSA
selected on December 5, 1983
( 1st CSA group )
March 31, 1992
(14th NASA group)
Calls: 3 space flights
Start of the
first space flight: 		5th October 1984
Landing of the
last space flight: 		December 11, 2000
Time in space: 29 T 2 hours 1 min
retired on January 31, 2001
Space flights

Joseph Jean-Pierre Marc Garneau , CC , PC (born February 23, 1949 in Québec ) is a Canadian politician and former astronaut . He is the first Canadian to fly into space. From 2001 to 2005 he was President of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA / ASC). In 2006 he was run as a candidate for the Canadian Liberal Party for election to the Canadian House of Commons , but was not elected. In 2008 he ran again and won the election. Three years later he was able to successfully, if just barely, defend his parliamentary seat. In 2013 he applied for election as party chairman, but abandoned his application in favor of Justin Trudeau . He has been Minister of Transport since 2015.

Life

Marc Garneau was born on February 23, 1949 in Quebec, Canada. After school, which he attended in Quebec and Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu , he studied technical physics at the Royal Military College of Canada and graduated in 1970 with a Bachelor of Science . In 1973 he received his PhD in electrical engineering from Imperial College London . From 1982 to 1983 he attended the Canadian Forces College in Toronto .

In 1974 he joined the Canadian Navy as a weapons systems engineer . Until 1976 he worked on board the HMCS Algonquin and then as an instructor at the Canadian Forces Fleet School in Halifax . From 1983 he was used in Ottawa. He was promoted to sea captain in January 1986. In 1989 he left the Navy.

In 1984 Garneau was selected for the new Canadian astronaut program. In 1992 he completed his training as a mission specialist as a member of NASA's 14th astronaut selection group. He then worked as a liaison spokesman ( Capcom ) for some shuttle missions. On February 1, 2001, he was appointed Vice President of the Canadian Space Agency and on November 22, 2001, he became its President. On November 28, 2005, he left the CSA / ASC to turn to politics.

From November 19, 2003 to March 5, 2009 Garneau was the ninth Chancellor of Carleton University in Ottawa.

Marc Garneau is a second marriage and has three children. Two of them are from his first marriage, one from his current marriage. His hobby is sailing, where he has already crossed the Atlantic twice with a 20 m long yawl together with twelve other sailors.

Space flights

STS-41-G

On October 5, 1984 Garneau started as a payload specialist with the space shuttle Challenger on its first mission ( STS-41-G ) into space . In addition to the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite, a large number of experiments were carried out.

STS-77

As a mission specialist, Garneau flew into space on May 19, 1996 as part of the STS-77 mission with the space shuttle Endeavor . This was the fifth mission of the Spacehab commercial module. A dozen experiments from the fields of biology , electrical engineering and agriculture were carried out there. Furthermore, the SPARTAN platform was suspended, which in turn carried the so-called Inflatable Antenna Experiment (IAE). The $ 14 million IAE was an aluminum-coated plastic shell that was shaped into an antenna dish using nitrogen gas. The ten-day operation was the first flight to be managed from takeoff to landing from the new Consolidated Control Center (CCC) in Houston.

STS-97

His last flight into space ( STS-97 ) took him to the International Space Station (ISS) on December 1, 2000 with the space shuttle Endeavor . The five-person crew brought the grid structure P6 , equipped with solar panels for power generation and radiators for cooling, to the station. After docking, the element was removed from the orbiter's cargo bay and connected to the space station with three exits . Then the hatches were opened and the ISS crew could greet the Endeavor crew. One day later, the shuttle started its return.

politics

After Garneau left the Canadian space agency, he was set up in 2006 by the Liberal Party of Canada in the constituency of Vaudreuil-Soulanges for election to the Canadian House of Commons. However, with 28.4% of the vote, he was unable to prevail against the incumbent Meili Faille from the Bloc Québécois (43.1%).

In 2007, Garneau showed interest in a line-up in the Outremont constituency to replace the outgoing MP Jean Lapierre in a by-election. The leader of the Liberals, Stéphane Dion , however, put Jocelyn Coulon , who ultimately lost to Thomas Mulcair of the New Democratic Party in the election.

After it became known that the MP and former minister Lucienne Robillard would no longer stand for election, Garneau submitted his application in May 2007 for a list in the constituency of Westmount-Ville-Marie . Dion had originally picked someone else for that constituency, but after further discussion Garneau was nominated. The by-election was planned for September 8, but was not held because Prime Minister Harper has scheduled a new parliamentary election for October 14, 2008. Garneau won the election with 46.5% of the vote against Anne Lagacé Dowson of the NDP (22.9%) and against the conservative Guy Dufort (15.8%). In the next election on May 2, 2011, he was only able to beat his challenger Joanne Corbeil from the New Democratic Party by a narrow margin of 1.6%.

On November 28, 2012, Garneau announced that he was running to chair the Liberal Party. While Justin Trudeau was widely predicted to have the best odds, Garneau was seen as the strongest challenger. Garneau criticized that Trudeau would not publish enough substantive statements on policy issues. Garneau challenged Trudeau to a debate, saying that if Trudeau couldn't defend his ideas against him, then neither could he against Prime Minister Harper. Trudeau did not accept this challenge. On March 13, 2013, Garneau announced that he was giving up his race for party leadership as polls showed he had no chance against Trudeau.

Garneau subsequently agreed to support Trudeau and was appointed to an internal party foreign policy advisory committee ( Liberal International Affairs Council of Advisors ) on September 18, 2013 . For the 2015 general election , he ran in the newly created constituency of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce-Westmount , which he won with 57.7% of the vote. He has been Minister of Transport in Justin Trudeau's cabinet since November 4, 2015. In the 2019 general election , Garneau was able to defend his seat in the lower house with 56.3 percent of the vote.

Honors

Garneau was named Officer of the Order of Canada in 1984 in recognition of his role as the first Canadian astronaut . In 2003 he was promoted to Companion of the Order of Canada in recognition of his services to Canadian space travel.

Two schools were named after him: the Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute in Toronto and the École secondaire publique Marc-Garneau in Trenton , Ontario.

In 2003 the asteroid (14094) Garneau was named after him.

See also

Web links

Commons : Marc Garneau  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b biography of Marc Garneau. Liberal Party of Canada, accessed May 4, 2014 .
  2. ^ History of the Canadian Astronaut Corps. CSA / ASC, accessed May 4, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Carleton formally installs Dr. Garneau as ninth Chancellor. Carleton University, archived from the original on March 12, 2018 ; accessed on May 4, 2014 .
  4. ^ The Right Honorable Herb Gray installed as Carleton's 10th Chancellor. Carleton University, March 6, 2009, accessed May 4, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Canada Votes 2006: 105 Vaudreuil-Soulanges. CBC January 12, 2006; archived from the original on December 22, 2015 ; accessed on May 4, 2014 .
  6. ^ NDP takes Outremont. The Montreal Gazette, September 18, 2007, archived from the original January 19, 2013 ; accessed on May 4, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Garneau confirmed on local ballot. Westmount Examiner, October 19, 2001, archived from the original May 5, 2014 ; accessed on May 4, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Harper calls three federal byelections for early September. Canadian Press, July 25, 2008; archived from the original on May 5, 2014 ; accessed on May 4, 2014 .
  9. ↑ Canada Votes 2008. CBC, October 14, 2008, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; accessed on May 4, 2014 .
  10. ↑ Garneau wins by 658 votes. Westmount Examiner, May 3, 2014, archived from the original on May 5, 2014 ; accessed on May 4, 2014 .
  11. ↑ Daniel LeBlanc: 'Mr. Harper is a one-trick pony, 'Marc Garneau says, launching Liberal leadership bid. The Globe and Mail, November 28, 2012, accessed May 4, 2014 .
  12. ↑ Garneau's Liberal leadership campaign officially blasts off. CTV News, November 28, 2012, accessed on May 4, 2014 .
  13. ^ Garneau targets Liberal leadership. CBC, November 28, 2012, accessed May 4, 2014 .
  14. ↑ Kelly McParland: Marc Garneau challenges Justin Trudeau to take a stand. Any stood. National Post, February 14, 2013, accessed May 3, 2014 .
  15. ↑ Josh Visser: Marc Garneau challenges 'untested' Liberal frontrunner Justin Trudeau to one-on-one debate. National Post, February 25, 2013, accessed May 3, 2014 .
  16. ^ Trudeau says no to Garneau offer of 1-on-1 debate. CBC, February 25, 2013, accessed May 4, 2014 .
  17. ^ Trudeau leadership win a 'fait accompli,' Garneau says. CBC, March 13, 2013, accessed May 3, 2014 .
  18. ↑ Retired General Andrew Leslie Has Joined Justin Trudeau's Team As Senior Adviser on Foreign And Defense Issues. September 18, 2013, archived from the original on May 5, 2014 ; accessed on May 3, 2014 .
  19. ^ Election results 2015 at Elections Canada
  20. ↑ Elections Canada 2019 results
  21. ^ Order of Canada. Governor general of Canada, accessed May 3, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Garneau, Marc
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Garneau, Joseph Jean-Pierre Marc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian astronaut
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Quebec