Biography of Joshua Kutryk

Joshua Kutryk serves as a CF-18 fighter pilot with 425 Tactical Fighter Squadron in Bagotville, Quebec. He flies missions in support of Canada's NATO, UN and NORAD commitments around the world. He is deployed to conflicts in both Libya and Afghanistan.

Joshua Kutryk works as an experimental test pilot, primarily on the CF-18 aircraft, at the Aerospace Engineering Test Establishment in Cold Lake, Alberta.

He works as an operational test pilot in Cold Lake, Alberta, leading the unit responsible for the operational flight-testing of fighter aircraft in Canada. He also works as an instructor pilot on the CF-18, teaching Canada's newest fighter pilots.

Joshua Kutryk is one of two recruits selected by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) in July 2017 through the fourth Canadian astronaut recruitment campaign.

Kutryk serves as a crewmember during a European Space Agency-led caving expedition for three weeks in Europe. He subsequently serves on a lunar geology expedition to the Mistastin Lake Impact Crater in Labrador, Canada.

Kutryk graduates from Astronaut Candidate Training and obtains the official title of astronaut. He is then appointed to the position of Operations Officer for the NASA Astronaut Office in Houston, Texas. He certifies as capcom for the ISS.

Joshua Kutryk begins working with the Starliner team in Houston. He is selected to be the capcom for the ascent and re-entry of the first crewed test flight of the CST-100 Starliner vehicle. He continues to be engaged with the development of the Starliner spaceship, participating in test and certification efforts as both a member of the flight control team and as a test subject.

Joshua Kutryk is assigned to Starliner-1, a Commercial Crew mission to the ISS, where he will live and work for approximately six months. He will become the first CSA astronaut to be part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program.