Portrait of Marc Garneau Courtesy of NASA

Marc Garneau is an astronaut who was born on February 23, 1949, in Canada. Before he became an astronaut, Garneau worked with Naval weapons systems.

Garneau became a Canadian astronaut in 1983. He flew aboard Mission 41-G in 1984 for Canada. He was the first Canadian in space. In 1992, Garneau became an astronaut for NASA. In 1996, he flew aboard STS-77. During this mission, the crew deployed two satellites.

Garneau has spent over 437 hours in space on these two spaceflights.