TV Interview about Canada's Greatest Know-it-All and Space

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Interview from March 2013 about Canada's Greatest Know-it-All, the Kitchener-Waterloo Region's role in technology, and Canada's role in space.
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the enter thank you so much for your
time appreciate it thank you for having
me
pleasure to have you okay so first we
have to ask I have to ask what does an
aerospace engineer do what is it that
you do
one engineer builds things an engineer
figures things and decides how to put
them together
so an aerospace engineer does both
aircraft
at the Aero part and space the space
part so
aerospace engineers build all the planes
you fly all the spacecraft to see
launching
all the space missions anything you do
that and sometimes they do a lot of
their dynamic work which even gets into
the automotive industry
so anything to do aerodynamics flying
things that that's what an aerospace
engineer does
okay perfect to see I like this you're
explaining things a nice easy ways that
we can all understand to tell us a
little bit how you got involved in this
in this lineup ab work and study and
wide appeal to you saw its
yeah that's interesting on my mother a
short for Air Canada so used to be on
airplanes all the time
and I was really interested in flying I
was actually in Air Cadets when I was
younger
and I was 13 I got involved america's
and it's really good way to get your
pilots license so many kids are there
can go and join their cats there's
probably a
slogan squadron and I always wanted to
fly planes
and Bill plane's design plans and when I
went to university has actually focused
on
airplanes other than a really good
friends who was really interested in
space
and and I think it's or rubbed off on me
when I was younger
really like Star Trek but I was
disappointed that we couldn't actually
go and meet
aliens and jumped other stars and flight
work speeding like I think
right it really occurred to me later on
that there are a lot of really
interesting places that we really can go
in our own solar system our solar system
has a series over 100 moons
all the Witcher different with unique
features that are really interesting
some of them have atmospheres and
have volcanoes so really interesting
place I wanted to get involved in that
yeah and you've kinda been able to live
someone but to rate you've experienced
half a dozen Canadian space missions you
earned a PHD
in human spaceflight what is that like
can you describe what it's like that to
take part in something like that %uh
it's fantastic I
went to Carlton actually for undergrad
in Ottawa where I'm from
originally and then it was MIT to do a
PhD in aerospace engineering
and it's just amazing you get to meet
all the astronauts I mean
I think for my professors Russ rockets
won the first female fighter pilot
I get to meet several people that walk
to the moon including Buzz Aldrin and
it's got the commander of policy 15
I was just a really innovative place and
i got to
perform experiments on some the
astronauts actually and we simulated
Martian
and lunar gravity so as if they were
walking on the Moon or Mars
and we were designing spaces and
optimizing the species for the gravity
cuz there's a really big interaction
between the space you stiffness hey
design a spacesuit
and the gravity level okay you get old
often I guess that you have a pretty
cool job that going into work is a lot
of fun I'm assuming
it is yeah it was here in Cambridge I
got to design a lot of Canadian space
mission so I worked on silent missions
which go around the earth all the time
we don't think about it but space in
Iraq's with their lives on a daily basis
you know all your banking transactions
love you telecommunication while if your
TV
goes right through space you might be
watching this from space right now we'll
GPS we get in car all that is based on
space
with it space in back to life lives on a
daily basis
and I was working on missions that
impact Canadians
serving the North the space telescopes
that look at
into the I'd up so the universe to try
to figure out where is the universe come
from
where stars being formed were a
third-generation stars so there were
many stores before us
and I just figure out the universe I
think these are the kind the basic
questions that
little kids want to know about that one
i loveeee just so that you know I just
figuring out the universe
yeah how we don't know how I life the
universe and everything
yeah I think that's what it's all about
yeah while wow so interesting I under
you
you've also done something else you gain
the title of Canada's greatest know it
all
right yes really couple weeks ago care
so from what I understand this is a
grueling a week bottle up stamina
teamwork knowledge and let's tell us a
little bit about Canada's greatest now
let me try to de-emphasize the teamwork
actually attract splits apart in part
because as much conflict as possible
thinks that the use of a little bit yeah
it does it does on
Canada's greatest know at all is kinda
do everything competition is really
about being presented with a new
challenge every day
you wake up and you don't know where
you're going the placard all the fans
and it's all this big surprise
and you have no idea we're going do when
you get thrown into this
new challenge all the time that's
totally out of your element
give us some examples are the challenges
of our I a never wanted to be
sky diver but then one day I thought
were gonna
African lion safari I can't he drive up
and we see this I for skydiving and we
all just
after national white ID I've never
wanted to do that I
however he does appeal to me anyway but
just because
it's the aviation thing it's a player
planes are cool primakov
but then I've never thought about drop
jumping out of a plane
yeah but I love flying planes so it
doesn't feel me I'm
just totally real man I mean the Briana
it said high school kids and you have to
do a science fair or
I all kinds of things that you never
picture they give you
I a span of water and have to build a
bridge across it
I they put you in a gravel pit and say
there's a bomb you need to defusing have
to scuba diving to go underwater crack
codes and defuse a bomb really quick so
there's just all these things I'd
no one really gets to do in real life
for sure to giant cannon
I and it's just fascinating a fantastic
it's a great opportunity meeting
challenges every day after
use your mind to solve them I it the
thing look as good as Noel
is it brings together really diverse
people everyone has a really different
set of skills you have
about all oil rig workers from Alberta
coming out
take a beating and scientists and your
you know it's it's about can you build
things can you apply a practical skills
and some challenges appeal to everyone
but
I guess the key is you have to be really
diverse and you have to be able to
handle
anything that comes your ways you have
to think on your feet and take your
knowledge
and apply it in a way that you never
thought you would before hmm was a tough
competition did where did you get it
take certain people and say I you're
gonna be out you're not a problem %ah
there's my child absolutely I think
anyone is watch the show probably pick
Scott
as a front-runner and so did I i with
Scott was the only one I was really
afraid of
in terms of I thought Scott could be for
sure
there's others that I thought you know
me win but I wasn't really afraid if
anyone else
yeah I was at condos I love for two and
half years and condos
is where the bigger space companies in
Canada and they do a lot of innovative
were conducted some the work on
the James Webb Space Telescope fine
guidance system which is the successor
to
hubbell which peers into the far distant
love
the universe tries to figure out where
stuff came from basically
come to have also does a lot of
satellites involved in surveying
the oceans for ships in the stress
and the almost any kennedy space mission
actually where the
projects I worked on on was a Canadian
Space Telescope which is ultraviolet
spectral
so it looks at me young new star
formation
okay and in when we talk about Waterloo
Region I mean is this
we're we're so known for science and
technology here space science and
technology would you say are we one of
the
the leaders in Canada or up in Collier
absolutely especially per capita yeah
definitely at the Waterloo Region is a
fantastic region have found science and
technology
mean for mitterand and condos for the a
big companies here and there one of the
bigger space companies in Canada so you
definitely have a lot
farm science and technology happening
right in this area
think that's exactly what we're talking
about at this hour as Eve spend some
time here
from ottawa you said tell us about the
space competition that would take the
Far Far Away Andrew
ours is not that far as into Earth's
atmosphere but he is that is OK
only about 100 kilometers from the
surface but it's nothing yeah it is %uh
is a competition get in space and it's
something I've always want to do I was
in the
astronaut recruitment and but
this is a an opportunity to fly in space
in a sub-orbital flight
and what I would really like to do is
flying experiment because
on my microgravity research all my
research at MIT was
how does the human body react to being
in space how do we keep humans alive in
space and how to keep them healthy in
space
and so I thought this would be a really
good opportunity to fly experiment
and I often students and and a young
children have
really good ideas about what would be
interesting experiments to
fly in space really cool ideas are so I
was thinking that
if I got to go then I would probably
bring experiment with me a pretty simple
experiment money could perform in a
small area
but I would like to perform a science
experiment and
it's always what I've wanted to do I i
I'm not so much into the space tourism
thing but I really into the space
research thing I would like to be an
astronaut so that's
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Facebook okay and is this something a
lifelong dream I did you feel kind of
all your clothes in your school
has it been leading up to a moment like
this
I think so this is absolutely what I've
always wanted to do
I'm so it is a lifelong dream and more
so it's a lifelong dream of mine to
go to mars actually that's really what
I'm wanna do in the long run
is going to mars I think maybe every
little kid probably wants to go to mars
and I'm just a big
little kid but I you work for it though
you've earned it
yeah it is if anyone should get to go to
market is why I research background my
interest
a I'm just wild about space so
I think you know this is a great
opportunity and your viewers can really
help out here
yet white why is it so appealing to you
I mean I'm sure it's hard to say you
know one or two reasons but going to
space in the going to mars what would
that mean
i think is the next big step for
Humanity I mean we've always since we're
on the plane's about Africa
million years ago we've just expanded
into every new territory on earth and I
think it's time that
we spend offer thers a lot of other
planets out there they're
billions of stars in our galaxy
billions of galaxies and then and
there are a lot of really interesting
place in getting billions the planets
and I think eventually
in the long run if we don't buy
Purcell's out we are going to be able to
plant species I think it's
we have the technology to do that now
two starts now
and I think this is the time we should
do it I think it's incentives
I it's a technology driver I think it's
a really good way to get us figure out
how to live on other planets
and develop a sustainable methods of
closest ally support
okay and we thank you so much for your
time today we expect big things for you
can
hopefully Skype with us when you're up
there on mars a council don t forget
about it yet will do everything I so
much bigger