Thank you very much.
We welcome the opportunity to speak to you today at this committee. I'm going to speak for 60 seconds because we have a presentation that I think you'll be very interested in.
Canada has had a banner year this year. Bob Thirsk started his mission earlier in the year and flew with space station commander Frank De Winne. That was the first time we had six individuals up in the international space station, and it was the first time that all five partners that had been put on the international space station flew at the same time, so this mission, more than any other mission, represented a crossroads in human space flight.
The presentation is a story line of what happened. It's the adventure of what these two crew members did over the last six months. Bob and Frank flew on one Soyuz, and Koichi Wakata was there when they arrived, having come up on the shuttle. The three of them are now going to give you a presentation and tell you their story of flying for six months in space.