Blasted off from Kazakhstan early Monday
David Saint-Jacques is an engineer, an astrophysicist and a physician
Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques is on his way to the International Space Station (ISS) in the Russian Soyuz rocket blasted with Russian and Us colleagues Oleg Kononenko and American astronaut Anne McClain. Saint-Jacques, 48, will spend six-and-a-half months in space. The liftoff was at 6:31 a.m. ET Monday and can be seen at length in this video. Among those present to watch was Governor General Julie Payette. The Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft entered a designated orbit just under nine minutes after the launch and was set to dock at the space outpost in about six hours after making four orbits of the Earth.