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Before Calgary astronaut Jenni Sidey-Gibbons can walk on the moon, she had to learn how to walk underwater in a 127-kilogram spacesuit.

Sidey-Gibbons, who was chosen to join Canada’s elite rank of astronauts in 2017, marked the end of a rigorous two-year basic training course in August.

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But training never really ends for the nation’s cosmic explorers.

Now that boot camp is complete, she can be assigned to a mission or start mission-specific training, but Sidey-Gibbons said launching into space is still a dream with no guarantee.

“I think anyone in our corps would absolutely love to go, but when? That’s really hard to know,” she said.

“For me, it would mean a lot, just based on the experiences I’ve had in the past couple years of hearing what it means for Canadians. I think we are really proud of the fact that we are a small nation, population-wise, that is spacefaring and that we have this really exploratory spirit.”