JULIE PAYETTE/ ASTRONAUT
Julie Payette (b. 1963)is a runner , a mother, a pianist and singer, a computer engineering a deep-sea diver, a speaker of six languages, and a world-orbiting nally from Montreal, Quebec, she was one of four-from among 5,330 applicants selected by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) in 1992 to become an astronaut. She completed her training at NASA in 1998, specializing in robotics. Her first space mission took her on STS-96, a logistics and resupply mission, to the International Space Station in 1999. She has logged nearly 500 hours in space since then. One of the most remarkable moments, she recalls was the first time she opened the hatch door to let crew members exit on an extravehicular assignment and she first smelled outer space.
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