En 2001, il est devenu le premier Canadien à quitter un engin spatial et à flotter librement dans l'espace, et durant son dernier vol dans l'espace, il est devenu le premier commandant canadien de la Station spatiale internationale, notre poste avancé au seuil de l'ultime frontière.
In 2001, he became the first Canadian to ever leave a spacecraft and float freely in space, and during his most recent space flight he became the first Canadian commander of the International Space Station, our advance post in moving into that final frontier.