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June 26, 2003 - Canadian Arrow introduced the six individuals who were selected to train to become our test pilot astronauts. The Canadian Arrow will send crews of two pilot astronauts on each of the early manned test flights. All six astronauts will eventually fly various missions.
Because each of the astronauts has career and other commitments, individualized training will be provided as their schedules and travel arrangements permit.
"Each one of these special individuals brings unique and important qualities to our company. We will use their knowledge, experience and enthusiasm in as many ways as possible as we perpare for our first flights" .. G. Sheerin.
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Astronaut Photos!
These Astronauts have received many requests for autographed photographs. We are
happy to be able to send out 5" x 7" glossy prints, personally autographed to those
wishing to purchase them.
Click here to download the order form. (pdf file)
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Left to Right: Larry C. Clark, Captain David Ballinger CD (Ret'd) , Jason Paul Dyer, Captain Wayne 'Terry' Wong, Captain Marvin Edward 'Ted' Gow, Dr. Yaroslav 'Yarko' Pustovyi
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Captain DJ Ballinger, CD, M.A. (Ret'd)
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David Ballinger, who is 41, comes to the Canadian Arrow Team as a just-retired officer from the Canadian Air Force, Department of National Defence. From 2000 to 2002 Captain Ballinger served as an Aviation Tactics Instructor at 403 Helicopter Operational Training Squadron at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown, New Brunswick. There, he taught aviation warfare to senior Canadian and foreign military pilots.
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Autographed Astronaut Photo!
Click here to download the order form. (pdf file)
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From 1998 to 2000 Captain Ballinger served as a Combat Exchange Pilot with the Royal Air Force, situated in England. In 1999, Captain Ballinger was an Aircraft Commander during NATO Operations in Kosovo and flew over 50 combat hours/130 sorties during that campaign. He also served as a Command Pilot for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. He received the NATO Medal.
In 1995/96/97 Captain Ballinger spent two six-month periods with the UN Support Mission in Haiti. He served as an Aviation Mission Commander and was awarded the United Nations Medal for Peacekeeping.
Captain Ballinger holds a Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies specializing in Global Aviation Management from Royal Roads University, Victoria, B.C. He is also a graduate of Humber College and has trained and worked as a hydrographic surveyor.
David's attitude toward the race to space is captured in a quote from Theodore Roosevelt that he used in his Canadian Arrow application:
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"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."
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Autographed Astronaut Photo!
Click here to download the order form. (pdf file)
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Larry Clark of Pulaski, New York has been working as a commercial pilot since March 1998. With over 4000 hours flying time, he is currently working as a Flight Officer with Northwest Airlink. He has previously flown for Northwest Airlines, and United Express.
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Larry graduated from the Florida Institute of Technology in 1996, receiving his Bachelor of Science in Aviation Management/Flight Technology. He graduated with high honours, achieving the highest percentile score on the U.S. Air Force Pilot PCSM (Pilot Candidate Selection Method) Testing.
Larry says he is excited by the opportunity to experience the challenges of space flight and looks forward to playing a fundamental role in furthering the development of passenger space travel.
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Jason Paul Dyer, M.A.Sc, P.Eng
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Jason Dyer, a London, Ontario native, is an aerospace engineer who is currently involved in the mission planning operations of the International Space Station (ISS) at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
He holds a Bachelor of Aerospace Engineering and Master of Applied Science (materials engineering) from Carleton University and a Professional Engineering Licence of Ontario.
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Autographed Astronaut Photo!
Click here to download the order form. (pdf file)
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Prior to his current job, Jason was employed by Orenda Aerospace Corporation from 1995 to 2001, where he worked as a project manager for the development and qualification of life extension solutions for spacecraft and aircraft mechanisms. He has also worked for the National Research Council as a student researcher.
Jason has had Six-Sigma Training, a disciplined, data-driven approach and methodology that can be used in any process. Jason is a Master scuba diver and a certified pilot. He also likes to play soccer, hockey, ski and skydive.
An excerpt from Jason Dyer's application to become a Canadian Arrow Astronaut:
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"For thousands of years, there have been dreamers, people who dreamed about sailing across the ocean, soaring above the clouds or exploring space. It was one thing to dream but quite another to hear the calling of an idea and have the courage and conviction to follow the potential of that vision to its conclusion. Everything ever achieved in human history has been accomplished by those few people who understood the big picture. It was those few, pouring their heart and soul into their dreams that have brought us to the doorstep of the public exploration of space. The time has come for a new set of dreamers to continue that goal and I am one of them."
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Captain Marvin Edward 'Ted' Gow
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Autographed Astronaut Photo!
Click here to download the order form. (pdf file)
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If you ask Captain Ted Gow about hobbies, he'll tell you that his favourite is human spaceflight. His vocation is also aeronautical. Ted is a CH-146 Griffon instructor pilot with 403 (Helicopter) Operational Training Squadron in Gagetown, New Brunswick where he was recently stationed in the summer of 2004.
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Ted, who is 35, was born in Oakville and raised in Calgary. Following high school, he spent a few years working and when a job as a baker ended abruptly in 1991, Ted felt it was time to follow through on thoughts he had about joining the military.
Delighted that an eyesight problem that had forced him to wear glasses as a child had disappeared, he applied and was accepted for pilot's training.
Ted learned to fly on a Slingsby Firefly, graduated to the Canadair Tutor, and found his real calling flying Jet Ranger helicopters.
Ted began his flying career assigned to 430 Tactical Helicopter Squadron in Val Cartier, Quebec and served on peacekeeping missions in Haiti and Bosnia. He also assisted with a number of domestic crises, including the flooding in the Sagenuay and Winnipeg and the ice storms that ravaged the Toronto to Montreal corridor. After 4 years in Quebec, Ted was sent to Alberta, and served as the Deputy Commanding Officer of 417 Combat Support Squadron at CFB Cold Lake.
In his younger days, rocketry was a favourite hobby. (And continues to be.) Ted has always loved to fly, and continues to be fascinated by the concept of flight, especially space flight.
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Dr. Yaroslav (Yarko) Pustovyi
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Autographed Astronaut Photo!
Click here to download the order form. (pdf file)
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Dr. Yaroslav (Yarko) Pustovyi (pronounced poose-toe-vee') brings incredible experience to the Canadian Arrow Team. From December 1996 to January 1998, Yarko served as a backup Payload Specialist for STS-87 crew, which flew the Space Shuttle Columbia mission in November and December of 1997.
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Yarko passed a year-long training program at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston Texas, and at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. From Zero-G parabolic flights to physiological trials such as low-pressure altitude training, Yarko is prepared both mentally and physically to travel into space.
Yarko, 33, was born in Kostroma, Russia, and now lives in Kiev, Ukraine. He received a Master of Science degree in radio electronics engineering (with honors) from Mozhayskiy Space Engineering Military Academy (Saint-Petersburg, Russia) in 1993 and a Doctorate in Physics and Mathematics (Radio Physics) from Kharkiv State University, Kharkiv, Ukraine in 1996.
Yarko has worked as an astronaut for the National Space Agency of Ukraine since 1996. He is responsible for strategic planning and analytic studies. He is married to Olesia and has a daughter Anastasia. He speaks Ukrainian, Russian, English, and some French.
Dr. Pustovyi says he believes that in the sixties and seventies there was huge enthusiasm toward to future of space travel because people believed that the public would soon have the opportunity to fly beyond the atmosphere. Because those opportunities have not been made possible, he says, the public has lost interest in space travel. Dr. Pustovyi believes the Canadian Arrow will help to reawaken public interest in space.
On a personal note, Yarko says he looks forward to realizing the dream of his life and his professional aspiration - to fly into space.
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Captain Wayne 'Terry' Wong
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Autographed Astronaut Photo!
Click here to download the order form. (pdf file)
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Captain Terry Wong, 39, took to the skies as a teenager, achieving his pilot's licence when he was just 17 years old. By the time he was 21, Terry was working as a commercial pilot for Collingwood Airways out of Collingwood, Ontario and Central Airways at Toronto Island Airport.
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[(Above) Terry Wong speaking to the students at Markham, Ontario Montessori School]
Terry received his Bachelor of Aeronautical and Mechanical Engineering from McGill in 1989 and also spent a year in a university exchange program at the University of North Dakota to take part in that school's flying program. He was a member of the university's Precision Flight Team.
In 1989 Terry joined the Canadian Forces as a pilot, and by 1993 he was an instructor pilot on the Canadair CT-114 Tutor Jet (the aircraft flown by the Snowbirds) at Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. While working there, he attended the University of Regina part-time and obtained his Masters Degree in Engineering.
In 1997 Terry was posted to the Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine. He used his proximity to the University of Toronto to complete his Master's in the field of spatial disorientation - specifically, its effects on a pilot.
Terry has experienced up to 9 G in a centrifuge, and was a test subject for the CF-18 Hornet at Cold Lake, Alberta to determine the effects of negative G loading, prior to positive G loading, on a human's ability to maintain consciousness.
In 1999 Terry left the military and began working with CaseBank Technologies where he was team leader of a group that develops computer driven artificial intelligence maintenance programs to repair aircraft.
Terry has also trained in London, Ontario at Empire Aviation, obtaining his Multi-Engine Commercial Instrument Flight Rating and earlier this year, he rejoined the Armed Forces as a reservist to fly with the 400 Tactical Helicopter Squadron in Borden.
Terry speaks Cantonese, English and some French, is single, and in his spare time loves (of course) to fly.
Terry says that from the time he was four and watched Neil Armstrong land on the moon, he knew that one day he would be an astronaut.
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