There have been many scientists influential to Canadian space exploration. One of the most famous Canadians to wear a spacesuit is Marc Garneau. Marc Garneau was born on February 23, 1949 in Quebec City (NASA, n.d.; Wikipedia, 2007). In 1970 Marc graduated from the Royal Military College in Kingston with a Bachelor of Science in engineering physics (NASA, n.d.). Next he went to a school in Halifax called Canadian Forces Fleet School where he served as a instructor in naval weapons systems (NASA, n.d.). While serving he invented a flight simulator for use in training weapons officers in the use of missile systems aboard Tribal class destroyers (NASA,  n.d.). When he returned he was appointed to the Naval Engineering Unit (NASA, n.d.). While he was there he helped once again and helped develop an aircraft-towed target system for the scoring of naval gunnery accuracy (NASA, n.d.).
         On December 19^th, 1983 he was selected to be one of six Canadian astronauts selected. He began Astronaut training in February 1984.  Marc Garneau became the first Canadian to go in space (Wikipedia, 2007; NASA, n.d.). He went in as a Payload specialist on shuttle Mission 41-G in October 1984. 
                 In July, 1992 Marc was selected for Mission Specialist training (NASA, n.d.). His next space job was the CAPCOM where he served as Capsule communicator at mission Control (NASA, n.d.). In total he had 3 total space flights: the STS-41G in 1984, STS-77 in 1996 and STS-97 in 2000 (NASA, n.d.).
            Marc Garneau has experienced over 677 hours in space (NASA, n.d.). After his illustrious career Marc was appointed president of the Canadian Space Agency on November 22, 2001 (NASA, n.d.). Marc Garneau has been known as the best known Canadian Astronaut and has been a role model for future Canadians.