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Julie Payette is an astronaut, pilot, engineer, and one of Canada’s shortest-reigning Governors General, appointed in 2017. She was born in Montreal on Oct. 20, 1963, and has had a distinguished and eventful life and career.
1980
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Received a Canadian scholarship to attend the Atlantic College in Wales.
1986
Obtained a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from McGill University and started work as a system engineer with IBM Canada.
1990
1992
The Canadian Space Agency selected Payette to become an astronaut from 5,330 applicants. In preparation for a space mission assignment, Payette obtained her commercial pilot licence, studied Russian and logged 120 hours as a research operator onboard reduced gravity aircraft.
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yes. that s 24 miles. so maybe it was more magestic than i thought. possibly. and he failed to break the record by 17 seconds. the guy who holds that record was balm garth neither s baumgartner s capsule communicator. that makes sense. when he said it was weird at the time, go ahead and pulled your chute now. you have the free fall record. he kind of screwed him over. that was brutal. they are rivals. clearly. it is a tough business. they are like top gun jie. they will never work together again. i would rather him say too soon than too late. pull your chute. i was joking, by the way. he didn t say that. you take that stair, andy.