I am still studying Electrical Engineering at UVic on Vancouver Island and just started my final co-op / internship position at MDA.  I will be working here full time for 8 months as a computer programmer and then going back to UVic for my final semesters to complete my degree. :)  I am very excited to have this opportunity to work at MDA.   MDA’s big claim to fame is that they build the Canada Arm on the International Space Station(ISS)!! Awesome eh?

So on the topic of the ISS and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), I’m sure most of you know that Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield is the current Commander on the ISS.  And… since MDA does many space related projects I started to investigate if there were any connections between Chris Hadfield and MDA.  It only took a few days of keeping my eyes open and I found a signed photograph of Commander Hadfield on the wall!!  I asked the nearest receptionist if I could take a picture of the signed photograph and she told me that she was able to get me a copy of the photo!  Man was that amazing news! :)

For all your twitter fans, Commander Chris Hadfield has a twitter account where he posts breath-taking photos taken from space on his Nikon DSLR.

So I hope you enjoyed this post.  I still have lots of pictures from my recent travels to the Netherlands and plan to start editing and posting more of them in the near future.

Larso