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Friday, 8 May, 2009

THE INTERVIEW: Astro-doc Bob Thirsk

The first Canadian to live in outer space will be a physician... on bisphosphonates.

This month, Dr Robert Thirsk will begin a six-month stay on the International Space Station when he takes off on board a Russian Soyuz spacecraft on May 27.

I talked to Dr Thirsk about how he became an engineer, then became a doctor, then became a physician. (And even then he wasn't done with his education; he ended up getting an MBA, as well.) He also described one of the many experiments he and his five ISS crewmates will be conducting: they are going to take bisphosphonates to try to counteract the bone demineralization astronauts suffer from in zero gravity.

Read my Q&A with Dr Thirsk in the latest issue of Parkhurst Exchange magazine or online here.

Posted by David Elkins and others at 4:00 AM

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  1. William Wordsworth comes to mind in reading this interview"

    'I wandered lonely as a cloud..... the bliss of solitude...'

    companioned with the interviewee's point of encouragement.... 'they were giggling near the end of their stay' (paraphrased)

    makes me wonder......

    Are we sending a scientist into space...OR.... an extremely introspective , brilliant "hippy"?

    Leaving your future career plan to your wife is ?cute/?glib/?abandonment of personal responsibility/?patronising/?immature?????

    ...don't know.....

    BUT.... the plan your work/ work your plan thing is not surfacing for me here ..

    Will we have a "laissez-faire" genius out there using the Canadarm as a baton ?
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