New standards for safety are now in place and Canada has helped provide tools and techniques that were needed. Technologies like these are innovative…

- Marc Garneau

We have played a critical role in meeting the new safety standards. The Canadian space industry contributed new tools that make the inspection of the…

- Marc Garneau

Canada's a huge country, so to be able to unite the country through communication satellite technology or to be able to observe it through remote sen…

- Marc Garneau

It is a challenge to have your launch date slip continuously.

- Marc Garneau

The most fun to do in the weightlessness is going down the ladder headfirst, walking on the ceiling, chasing after M&M's that you throw up into the a…

- Marc Garneau

In 1983, NASA invited Canada to fly three payload specialists, in part because we had contributed the robotic arm that is used on the shuttle.

- Marc Garneau

What you aren't ready for being the first time in space - on an emotional and intellectual level - is how looking down at Earth will profoundly affec…

- Marc Garneau

I would love to see the world's space programs continue toward sending humans to an asteroid or to Mars, with, of course, a full plan in place to bri…

- Marc Garneau

Well, my father was in the Army and we traveled quite a bit when I was growing up, and I thought that I would like to have a military career, althoug…

- Marc Garneau