Jason Michaud
About
Founder and CEO of Stardust Inc. Born in Sault Ste. Marie and raised in Dubreuilville, a village of 900 in the northern Ontario bush, under skies dark enough that the stars were always there. Born with cleidocranial dysplasia and living with ADHD, told for most of his life that space was not for him.
He is a researcher as well as a founder. The French space agency selected his experiment and Novespace flew it over 43 parabolas in 2019. Three further campaigns followed with Canada's National Research Council in early 2021, run under its research ethics board, and the Canadian Space Agency evaluated the results. He has flown more than 80 parabolas of microgravity, lunar and Martian gravity, and he is still training.
He built Serenity so that the people left behind are not left out, and he is here on Odyssey for the same reason he built it. If the stars felt out of reach where you grew up, you are in the right place.