Virgin Galactic recently announced crew assignments for “Galactic 07”, which is the next planned spaceflight of their flagship VSS Unity. Jameel Janjua, a former RCAF fighter pilot and RMC graduate was selected to pilot the spacecraft. This is significant as the only other Canadian to fly a spacecraft, in the truest sense of the word, was Chris Hadfield.<\/p>\n
Major Janjua reached out to the RMC Alumni Association to seek a piece of RMC to take with him on his upcoming flight on 8 June. He noted that “RMC played a huge and irreplaceable part in my own journey, which is still ongoing, of course, so it was natural to offer after taking some time to reflect on how I got here. I hope that I can do that patch justice and look forward to returning it to the College at some point after it\u2019s accompanied me to space.”<\/p>\n
Major Jameel Janjua was born in Calgary, Alberta, and graduated from the RMC Canada CMR with a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Chemical and Materials Engineering, Class of 2000. He was awarded the Governor General\u2019s medal as the top graduate. Upon graduation from RMC, Jameel was awarded a post-graduate scholarship from the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) to complete a Master of Science (SM) degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).<\/p>\n
Safe travels Major Janjua from all of us at the Colleges.<\/p>\n
#AdAstra #spaceexploration #rcaf #CAF #rmc #TDV #AlumniSpotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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