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Video Summary & Related Content 3 Video Review 4 Before Viewing 5 While Viewing 5 Talk Prompts 7 After Viewing 9 The Story 11 Activity #1: Pursuing Career Goals 15 Activity #2: Conducting an Inquiry on the International Space Station 20 Sources 22

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David Saint-Jacques may not be a household name… yet! But he's likely to become one. He's only the 10th Canadian astronaut to go into space. He's assigned to spend six and a half months on the International Space Station conducting various experiments and operating the . At 49 years of age, Saint-Jacques’ journey to space is as interesting as how he became an astronaut. The man had three accomplished careers, including engineer, astrophysicist and medical doctor, before applying to the . In 2009, he was accepted to take part in training to become an astronaut, training that is both mentally and physically challenging. On December 3, 2018, he blasted off aboard a Russian rocket bound for the International Space Station. This is the story of Saint-Jacques — the man and his mission!

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curio.ca/newsinreview / 3 VIDEO REVIEW

curio.ca/newsinreview / 4 BEFORE VIEWING Would you like to explore space? Why or why not?

WHILE VIEWING

1. David Saint-Jacques is the 10th Canadian astronaut to go into space.  TRUE or  FALSE

2. David Saint-Jacques will be researching the effect of weak gravity on the human body as well as providing medical care to other . He will also be operating the Canadarm on the mission.  TRUE or  FALSE

3. Which of the following describes David Saint-Jacques?  a) He is an engineer.  c) He speaks five languages.  b) He is a doctor.  d) All of the above.

Astronaut David Saint-Jacques: The Man and His Mission curio.ca/newsinreview / 5 4. What training does an astronaut do in NASA’s Neutral Laboratory?  a) Learns how to focus during life-off.  b) Learns how to move effectively in zero-gravity.  c) Learns how to repair the Canadarm.

5. What country is transporting the astronauts to the International Space Station for ?  a) Canada  b) United States  c) Russia 6. The trip up to the International Space Station took four orbits of about 90 minutes each, ending in a successful docking.  TRUE or  FALSE

7. How long will Saint-Jacques’s mission last?  a) Six months.  b) Eight months.  c) Twelve months.

Astronaut David Saint-Jacques: The Man and His Mission curio.ca/newsinreview / 6 TALK NEW PROMPTS

curio.ca/newsinreview / 7 TALK PROMPT #1 Consider pausing the video and giving students the opportunity to talk to an elbow partner for a few minutes or use these questions as part of a class discussion.

Pause the video after David Saint-Jacques talks about what has prepared him for life as an astronaut, @ 09:56 – • Why do you think relationships and communication are the key skills of an astronaut?

TALK PROMPT #2

Pause the video after the interview with , @ 13:47

• Why do you think astronauts are willing to risk their lives to into space?

Astronaut David Saint-Jacques: The Man and His Mission curio.ca/newsinreview / 8 AFTER VIEWING The early astronauts were unable to get life What do you imagine will be the next stages insurance so, to ensure their families would be of space exploration? taken care of if they failed to return from their mission, they would autograph pictures of themselves. These pictures could then be auctioned off to raise money for their families.

Astronaut David Saint-Jacques: The Man and His Mission curio.ca/newsinreview / 9 All these training sessions [for the mission to ISS], they represent things that I must know and I must master, not to try to please an instructor or to pass a test. I must know them if I want to survive. And so that added sense of reality, of urgency, of this kind of animal fear, is what drives me to really focus. – David Saint-Jacques THE STORY

READING ACTIVITY: While and Spanish conversationally. He is a devoted father to three you are reading The Story, children and his friends and create a question for each paragraph based on your co-workers say he’s an all- own interests and curiosities. round good guy. Be prepared to share these Dr. Saint-Jacques questions after reading.

Saint-Jacques has had An extremely talented man educational and work

David Saint-Jacques is an experiences that have taken extremely talented man. He is him across Canada and around community on Hudson Bay. an engineer, astrophysicist, the world. He was a doctor Early in his career he worked medical doctor and pilot. He and co-chief of medicine at on the design of radiological speaks English and French Inuulitsivik Health Centre in equipment for angiography. fluently and Russian, Japanese Puvirnituq, Nunavik, an Inuit During this time, as a grad

Astronaut David Saint-Jacques: The Man and His Mission curio.ca/newsinreview / 11 student, he developed I’ve always wanted to get to dream has motivated me to adaptive optics and the bottom of things, and go reach my full potential as a interferometry systems (see beyond books and theory. I’m human being. I wanted to learn following page for details). His naturally curious and drawn by everything, both about the international experience discovery and adventure. As a sciences and world cultures. To includes engineering study and child, I was impressed by photos be an explorer, I also had to work in France and Hungary of Earth taken from the moon. become a responsible and and medical training in They showed me the immensity trustworthy adult. Opportunities Lebanon and Guatemala. of the universe around us, the for discovery have presented splendour and obvious fragility themselves in many forms: A curious child of our planet. Growing up, I was science, medicine, living abroad. I guess it wouldn’t surprise drawn to a life of adventure, When I learned one day that you that Saint-Jacques was a exploration and discovery. I astronauts were being recruited, curious child who was didn’t think that becoming an the dream returned, and the astronaut was a real possibility, little boy I once was convinced fascinated by the world but my fascination with space me to apply. around him. In his own words: remained, and that childhood

Astronaut David Saint-Jacques: The Man and His Mission curio.ca/newsinreview / 12 What is adaptive optics? According to Becoming an astronaut the European Southern Observatory, Saint-Jacques was selected to astronomers use adaptive optics by the astronaut program in May developing sophisticated, deformable 2009 by the Canadian Space mirrors controlled by computers that Agency and moved to can correct — in real-time — the to become one of the 14 distortion caused by the turbulence of Image taken with adaptive optics (NASA) members of the 20th NASA the Earth's atmosphere, making the images obtained almost as sharp as those taken in space. astronaut class. In order to graduate from Astronaut Candidate Training he needed to What is interferometry? According to HowStuffWorks an master the International Space interferometer is an instrument that uses the interference patterns Station systems and procedures, formed by waves (usually light, radio or sound waves) to measure walking in space, robotics, flight certain characteristics of the waves themselves or of materials that training, field geology training, reflect, refract or transmit the waves. Interferometers can also be used to make precise measurements of distance. Russian language and wilderness survival training.

Astronaut David Saint-Jacques: The Man and His Mission curio.ca/newsinreview / 13 Expedition 58 and the ISS biology, physics, astronomy Saint-Jacques can count In May 2016, the Canadian and meteorology. The ISS is a himself among a select number Space Agency announced that collaboration between the of astronauts who have he had been assigned to space agencies of the US, competed a mission aboard Expedition 58. In December Russia, Japan, Canada and the ISS. Europe. The ISS is the 2018, the mission flew to the AFTER READING: With a International Space Station. expensive single item ever constructed with a price tag of group of three classmates, The International Space Station review the questions you about $150 billion. That (ISS) has been in orbit for over wrote while reading The number continues to climb 20 years. It is a research Story. Group all of your with every new component laboratory in which a questions into categories maximum of six crew members added to the station. In total, based on similarities and (Saint-Jacques is one of three more than 400 scientific differences. What do you crew members at the moment) experiments have been notice? Which question conduct experiments in conducted on the space station would you most like to over the last decade. David answer and why?

Astronaut David Saint-Jacques: The Man and His Mission curio.ca/newsinreview / 14 ACTIVITY #1: Pursuing Career Goals The reading on the following pages is from an interview with astronaut David Saint-Jacques where he is asked to reflect on his life and describe how his experiences helped prepare him to become an astronaut. Complete the table below while reading the interview.

His knowledge, His interpersonal skills abilities and learning Challenges he faced Best advice he got (working with others) styles

Astronaut David Saint-Jacques: The Man and His Mission curio.ca/newsinreview / 15 Each in their own dedicated to their work: first way, the responders, doctors, nurses,

professions I have air ambulance pilots. You learn practiced have to work together and trust prepared me well each other, to the point that to go into space. you have no hesitation about putting your life in your Practicing medicine colleagues' hands. in isolated regions is a team affair, My years as an astrophysicist where you have to taught me the discipline of What did you like best about solve complex problems with research and the joy of your jobs and how have they limited resources. As in the scientific discovery as I worked prepared you for a career as field of space exploration, in observatories the world astronaut? everyone is enthusiastically over, part of international

Source: www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/astronauts/canadian/active/bio-david-saint-jacques.asp

Astronaut David Saint-Jacques: The Man and His Mission curio.ca/newsinreview / 16 teams determined to push the where the culture was requires real teamwork with boundaries of knowledge. different from mine. This has my wife. Like me, she juggles taught me to step back, to child care and a demanding As an engineer, I especially observe, to question myself career, all while living as an enjoy the creativity and the and to become more expatriate. This balancing act is satisfaction of finding a adaptable. made possible thanks to her to a practical problem energy, her creativity and that is so elegant, so reliable What do you consider your and so ergonomic that in the greatest achievement? end you take it for granted. Raising my three children When an engineer has done and succeeding in being a their job well, it works, and good husband and good that's all there is to it! father, despite the elevated Finally, whether in Nunavik, demands of my work and Japan, England or France, I the compromises and have lived in communities sacrifices it involves. This

Astronaut David Saint-Jacques: The Man and His Mission curio.ca/newsinreview / 17 creativity and her sense of around the goal of becoming arise along the way. Above all, humour. I am nourished by my an astronaut. First and don't consider yourself a family life — it keeps my feet foremost, make choices that failure if you end up on the ground! will make you happy. That way someplace other than where you will be happy, wherever you expected. If every step is a What is the best career advice life takes you! positive experience, then the you've ever received? end result will be the right I have followed his advice. I As a young student, I had the one. chance to meet astronaut understand that dreams are Steve MacLean when he came important because they AFTER-READING ACTIVITY to speak at my university. I provide a direction, but not Complete the chart on the told him of my passion for necessarily a destination. We following page based on space and my curiosity about have to cherish our dreams your future goals. his work. He gave me some and let ourselves be guided by very simple advice: don’t try to our ideals, while remaining build your career path solely open to the opportunities that

Astronaut David Saint-Jacques: The Man and His Mission curio.ca/newsinreview / 18 Where can I go to My skills, interests and Team work: Areas of Job choices that access information learning styles growth for me interest me and advice regarding my job choices?

Astronaut David Saint-Jacques: The Man and His Mission curio.ca/newsinreview / 19 ACTIVITY #2: Conducting an Inquiry on the International Space Station Step 1: Choose a focus for an inquiry based on • What is the most important scientific research the International Space Station. being conducted at the ISS? Step 2: Create an inquiry question — a question • How has space travel and research added to that is not merely factual but allows for multiple scientific knowledge? answers and perspectives. • How have the requirements to become an astronaut changed Sample Inquiry Questions over time and why? • What is the greatest challenge when it comes to keeping humans safe during space travel? • What is the best option for the ISS • What is the greatest challenge when it comes once its mission is to keeping humans safe while living on the ISS? considered complete? • Should the ISS entertain space “tourists”

(people who are not trained astronauts but who have money to pay for a space flight)?

Astronaut David Saint-Jacques: The Man and His Mission curio.ca/newsinreview / 20 Step 3: Begin your research by considering at least three (3) reliable, credible and sources. Check that your sources offer different perspectives. Step 4: Synthesize and consolidate your research. What are your conclusions? Step 5: Present your inquiry using a multimedia format.

Astronaut David Saint-Jacques: The Man and His Mission curio.ca/newsinreview / 21 SOURCES

Banerjee, Sidhartha. (Dec. 2018). Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques ‘astounded’ by voyage to International Space Station. . Retrieved from: https://nationalpost.com/news/canadian-astronaut-david-saint-jacques-astounded-by-voyage-to- international-space-station Canadian Space Agency. Biography of David Saint-Jacques. Retrieved from: www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/astronauts/canadian/active/ bio-david-saint-jacques.asp Kitmacher, Gary. (2006). Reference Guide to the International Space Station. Canada: Apogee Books. Semeniuk, Ivan. (Dec. 2018). Inside David Saint-Jacques’ launch into orbit. Globe and Mail. Retrieved from: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-for-david-saint-jacques-launching-into-space-is-a-dream-come-true/

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