Marc Garneau arrives at the Kennedy Space Station in a jet in 2000.

Author interview: Marc Garneau

A Most Extraordinary Ride offers more than astronaut's out-of-this-world experiences

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A Most Extraordinary Ride: Space, Politics And The Pursuit of a Canadian Dream

Marc Garneau

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It’s been more than 40 years since Marc Garneau made history as the first Canadian astronaut to blast into space — yet he still feels defeated by the challenge of talking about it.

“To this day, I struggle to describe what it was like to see Earth from space,” he writes in his new memoir, A Most Extraordinary Ride.