Joshua Kutryk: My support has always come from my family

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Joshua Kutryk: My support has always come from my family

As part of Military Family Appreciation Day, Colonel Joshua Kutryk, Canadian Space agency astronaut and member of the Royal Canadian Air Force, pays tribute to his family members and thanks them for their support. 

Through an anecdote from the 2016 recruitment campaign, he highlights the important role his wife played at that time, a role which continues to this day. (Credits: Canadian Space Agency, Canadian Armed Forces / Department of National Defence)

Joshua Kutryk: I want to thank my family and friends – their enduring, tireless support has made this possible for me on a personal level.

Some of them are here today.

Astronaut selection is a long journey. This entire job, profession, is a long journey.

My family, my wife Heather, have always been a really important support mechanism for me through all of this.  

She was by my side during selection in 2016, and of course that continues through to today.  

I remember being on holidays in a hot spot down in Honduras I think, and at the time I was practicing breath holding, basically dive into the bottom of the pool with weights and just timing myself against a watch and trying to press that limit out as far as I could.  

And my ti-timer and main fan and chief coach at the time was Heather.

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