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Robert Thirsk
Robert "Bob" Brent Thirsk, is a Canadian retired engineer and physician, and a former Canadian Space Agency astronaut. He holds the Canadian record for the most time spent in space. He became an officer of the Order of Canada (OC) in 2013 and was named to the Order of British Columbia (OBC) in 2012.
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science · Canadian engineer, astronaut and physician (born 1953) · astronaut · engineer · physician · also Robert Thirsk, Thirsk
Born 17 August 1953 · Q461795
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2026· 3 entries
Encyclopaedia Britannica: Robert Thirsk
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CTV News: Artemis II: One-on-one with Dr. Robert Thirsk
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2021· 1 entry
Robert made a trip to the UK where he gave a speech to Loughborough Grammar School
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2019· 1 entry
Thirsk was awarded an honorary D
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2014· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the Order of Canada (2014).
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2013· 1 entry
And was named to the Order of British Columbia (OBC) in 2012
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2012· 1 entry
Was made a Member of the Order of British Columbia and in 2013 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada
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2011· 1 entry
Thirsk was awarded the Russian Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration" – for outstanding contribution to the development of international cooperation in crewed space flight
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2004· 1 entry
Thirsk trained at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre near Moscow and became certified as a flight engineer for the Soyuz spacecraft
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1998· 1 entry
Thirsk was assigned by the Canadian Space Agency to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston to pursue mission specialist training
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1997· 1 entry
Was awarded the Gold Medal of the Professional Engineers of Ontario and was awarded honorary membership in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia
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1996· 1 entry
Thirsk flew aboard space shuttle mission STS-78 (the life and microgravity Spacelab mission) as a payload specialist
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1982· 1 entry
And his MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1998 as a Sloan Fellow
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1976· 2 entries
And continued with a Master of Science degree in mechanical engineering from MIT in 1978, an M
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And was the first recipient of the University of Calgary Distinguished Alumni Award (1985)
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1953· 1 entry
Born 1953-08-17.
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