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Marc's Responsibilities

Marc Garneau

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Main Responsibilities

  • Flight Engineer, or Mission Specialist 2 (MS2);

  • Canadarm Operator to manoeuvre the P6 Structure containing the arrays from the Payload Bay to its mated position;

  • Intravehicular (IVA) crew member, the "choregrapher" of the space walks;

  • Back-up extravehicular (EVA) crew member.

Other

  • Marc Garneau manoeuvred the Canadarm, or Shuttle Remote Manipulator System to remove the solar arrays from the shuttle's cargo bay;

  • The Canadian Space Vision System was used to berth the P6 (the structure containing the arrays) on the Z1 Truss;

  • IMAX Cargo Bay Camera-3D (ICBC-3D): Marc used the Canadian-developed large-format IMAX camera to film portions of the mission;

  • An S-Band TDRSS Transponder, built by Montreal-based EMS Technologies, sent up on Flight 3A, was relocated from the Z1 to the P6 Truss