Public Lecture by Maj(Ret) Jameel Janjua

2025-10-09

  • Maj (Ret) Jameel Janjua speaks with Officer Cadets during a public lecture on 12 September 2025.
  • Maj (Ret) Janjua giving a presentation about his 2024 flight into space.
  • Maj (Ret) Janjua answers questions from the audience in historic Curry Hall.
  • RMC Alumni Association Representative Ms. Jennifer Jordan presented Maj (Ret) Jameel Janjua with a display box containing the RMC crest and mission patch he flew with him to space on board the Virgin Galactic VSS Unity on 8 June 2024. The display box will be held by the RMC Alumni Association at Panet House.
  • Maj (Ret) Janjua, with video from the June 2024 Virgin Galactic mission in the background, talks about the experience of going into space.

On 12 September 2025, the RMC Physics and Space Science department was proud to host a public lecture by Maj (retired) Jameel Janjua, an ex-cadet who graduated with a Chemical and Material Engineering Degree in 2000. He was able to describe to the audience how he was been able to take the foundational skills he developed in his years at RMC to become a fighter pilot within the RCAF, and a test pilot. These experiences then led him to become a 2009 finalist in the Canadian Space Agency’s astronaut recruitment campaign, placing among the last four from a pool of over 5,000 applicants. Not to be deterred from his aspirations for space, he took these experiences and became a pilot for Virgin Galactic, where he was able to fly up to a height of 287,001 ft with a maximum acceleration force of 2.94g’s.

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