Met him once after he gave a talk on campus. Decent dude.

He asked the lecture hall an interesting question about the explorer mindset. It was during the era of the MarsOne media-fueled vapour hype. "Would you take a one-way trip to Mars?" And then started asking why, or why not (the consensus of the room was nearly unanimously "no"). And talked about explorers ancient and modern, and how risk was no longer tolerated. Very interesting fellow.

RIP.

Sad, rip

aww dude...

I was hoping he'd still be around in politics.

He did some good as minister of transportation.

Not even that old. Really sad.

First Canadian in space. I still remember when he went up.

Mass Effect recycled many names from science. I hadn’t realized Garneau was one of them until now. (Leviathan expansion, ME3).

My heart goes out to his family and loved ones.

It really hurts that I am very conscious of what the Musk Rat did to the phrase, but it is only what I can say.