Canadians in Space

To date 9 Canadians have gone flown in space a total of 16 times in 28 years.  Canadians have spent a total of 364 days, 13 hours and 12 minutes in space, when Chris Hadfield returns to space in March 2013, Canada will be the sixth nation to have logged more than a year in space.

Canada has chosen 12 people to become astronauts of which 8 have been in space to date - people in bold are still active

• 1983 Roberta Bondar, Marc Garneau, Steve MacLean, Robert Thirsk  and Bjarni Tryggvason who flew in space and Kenneth Money who did not.
• 1992 Chris Hadfield, Julie Payette and Dafydd Williams who few in space and Micheal McKay who did not fly due to medical reasons.
• 2009 Jeremy Hansen and David Saint-Jacques, neither whom has flown yet.

Guy Laliberte paid Space Adventures to go into space in 2009.

By Time in Space

• Robert Thirsk - 204d 18h 29m - June 1996, May 2009
• Marc Garneau - 29d 2h 11m - Oct 1984, May 1996, Nov 2000
• Dafydd Williams - 28d 15h 47m - Apr 1998, Aug 2007
• Julie Payette - 25d 11h 58m - May 1999, July 2009
• Steve MacLean - 21d 16h 2m - Oct 1992, Sept 2006
• Chris Hadfield - 20d 2h 2m - Nov 1995, Apr 2001
• Barni Tryggvason - 11d 20h 28m - Aug 1997
• Guy Laliberte - 10d 21h 7m - Sept 2009
• Roberta Bondar - 8d 1h 46m - Jan 1992

By Age at First Flight

• Julie Payette - 35
• Marc Garneau - 35
• Chris Hadfield - 36 
• Steve MacLean - 37
• Robert Thirsk - 42
• Dafydd Williams - 43
• Roberta Bondar - 46
• Guy Laliberte - 50
• Bjarni Tryggvason - 51

By Date of Birth

• Bjarni Tryggvason - Sept 1945
• Roberta Bondar - Dec 4 1945
• Marc Garneau - Feb 23 1949
• Robert Thrisk - Aug 17 1953
• Dafydd Williams - May 16 1954
• Steve MacLean - Dec 14 1954
• Chris Hadfield - Aug 29 1959
• Guy Laliberte - Sept 2 1959
• Julie Payette - Oct 30 1963

By EVA

• Dafydd Williams - 17h 47m
• Chris Hadfield - 14h 50m 
• Steve Maclean - 7h 11m

A number of CSA astronauts have been on NEEMO.  NEEMO is and underwater habitat located near Key Largo in Florida.   NASA has crews there for a weeks at a time.   The program gives astronauts experience living in a space like environment.   It also gives astronauts some command experience before becoming an ISS commander in space.   

• Daffyd Williams - Oct 2001 and then again in  Apr 2006 as commander
• Robert Thirsk - Oct 2004 as commander
• Chris Hadfield - May 2010 as commander - he will be the ISS commander for expedition 35 starting in March 2013
• David Saint-Jacques - Oct 2011