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News in Review Is Produced by Visit for an Archive of All CBC NEWS and Curio.Ca Previous News in Review Seasons TABLE OF CONTENTS 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 CREDITS News in Review is produced by Visit www.curio.ca/newsinreview for an archive of all CBC NEWS and curio.ca previous News In Review seasons. As a companion resource, go to www.cbc.ca/news for additional GUIDE articles. Writer: Jennifer Watt Editor: Sean Dolan CBC authorizes reproduction of material contained VIDEO in this guide for educational purposes. Please Host: Michael Serapio identify source. Senior Producer: Jordanna Lake News In Review is distributed by: Packaging Producer: Marie-Hélène Savard curio.ca | CBC Media Solutions Associate Producer: Francine Laprotte Supervising Manager: Laraine Bone © 2019 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ASTRONAUT DAVID SAINT-JACQUES: The Man and His Mission Video duration – 15:32 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 Canadarm. 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 Canadian Space Agency. 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 Soyuz rocket bound for the International Space Station. This is the story of Saint-Jacques — the man and his mission! Related content on curio.ca • Collection: Canada in Space • Canada's next astronaut to walk in space • Chris Hadfield: Return to Space • The Man who Tweeted Earth 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 astronauts. 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 Buoyancy 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 Expedition 58? 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 Julie Payette, @ 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, create a question for each children and his friends and 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 Houston 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 most 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.
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