Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques pumped for lengthy space mission

David Saint-Jacques is currently in quarantine in the Kazakhstan outpost of Baikonur. On the surface, that might not sound like the most exhilarating of experiences.
But that will change Monday, when the Canadian Space Agency astronaut leaves the Earth’s surface, lifting off in a Soyuz spacecraft from Kazakhstan and heading for a six-month scientific fact-finding mission aboard the International Space Station. He’s been training the last two years for this mission.
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