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Marc Garneau Order of Canada|CC (born February 23,
1949) was the first Canada|Canadian in space. He
has taken part in three flights aboard NASA Space
shuttle|shuttles.  He is the current president of
the Canadian Space Agency.

He was born in Quebec City. He was educated in
Quebec and in London, England. He gained a degree
in engineering physics at the Royal Military
College of Canada in 1970 and a doctorate from
Imperial College, London in 1973.

He joined the Canadian Navy in 1974 to work as an
engineer. He first served as a systems engineer
aboard the HMCS Algonquin until 1976. From there
he went as an instructor to the Canadian Forces
Fleet School in Halifax. He worked with the Naval
Engineering Unit and in 1982 he was promoted to
commander.

In 1984 he was seconded to the new Canadian
Astronaut Program (CAP), one of six chosen from
4,000 applicants. He flew on the shuttle Space
Shuttle Challenger|Challenger, STS-41-G from
October 5 to 13, 1984 as payload specialist. He
was promoted to captain in 1986 and left the Navy
in 1989 to become deputy director of the CAP. In
1992-93 he underwent further training to become a
mission specialist. He worked as Capsule
communicator|CAPCOM for a number of shuttle
flights and was on two further flights himself -
STS-77 (May 19 to 29, 1996) and STS-97 (to the
ISS, November 30 to December 11, 2000). He has
logged almost 678 hours in space. He is now
retired as an astronaut.

In February 2001 he was appointed executive
vice-president of the Canadian Space Agency, and
became its president in November of the same year.
Dr. Marc Garneau was installed as the ninth
chancellor of Carleton University in 2003.

In August 2003, Capt. Garneau was made a Companion
of the Order of Canada, Canada's highest honour. 
He is also honoured with a high school named after
him in Toronto
http://www.tdsb.on.ca/scripts/Schoolasp.asp?schno=
1950.

In late 2003/early 2004, speculation arose that he
would be named the next Governor General of
Canada. Michaëlle Jean was later named to the
post.

==See also==
*Canadian Space Agency

==External links==
*
http://www.space.gc.ca/asc/eng/about/president_bio
graphy.asp Canadian Space Agency biography
*
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/bios/htmlbios/garneau.html
NASA biography