Julie Payette has served NASA and has been rewarded.
 After undergoing basic training in Canada, she worked as a technical advisor for the Mobile Servicing System, an advanced robotics system and Canada's contribution to the International Space Station
== Personal life ==Payette has been married twice, first to Franois Brissette in the 1990s, and secondly to William Flynn, with whom she had a son in 2003, and from whom she divorced in 2015

