And, you run also video because to fly this arm, you're relying mostly on some external camera views that may be coming from the arm itself or from the station.

So, it takes a lot of chance and luck. I mean I was lucky enough to get in the program where people with the same skills never made it to the program. So keep trying.

Polytechnique is a school whose multi disciplinary, very high scientific level curriculum is invaluable.

And everything stopped quite rapidly because I knew that nobody in Europe was able to go to space. It was the privilege of being either American or Russian.

We also had to bring with us some desired scientific equipment over to the station as well as assemble new machines. For that, I had to conduct two space walks.

The student develops an analytical as well as finely blended character. He is able to choose from a wide variety of job fields from which to embrace a career, without having to be a specialist in one particular discipline.

It's only when you're flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is