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Marc's Responsibilities

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Main Responsibilities
- Flight Engineer, or Mission Specialist 2 (MS2);
- Canadarm Operator to manoeuvre the P6 Structure containing the arrays from the Payload Bay to its mated position;
- Intravehicular (IVA) crew member, the "choregrapher" of the space walks;
- Back-up extravehicular (EVA) crew member.
Other
- Marc Garneau manoeuvred the Canadarm, or Shuttle Remote Manipulator System to remove the solar arrays from the shuttle's cargo bay;
- The Canadian Space Vision System was used to berth the P6 (the structure containing the arrays) on the Z1 Truss;
- IMAX Cargo Bay Camera-3D (ICBC-3D): Marc used the Canadian-developed large-format IMAX camera to film portions of the mission;
- An S-Band TDRSS Transponder, built by Montreal-based EMS Technologies, sent up on Flight 3A, was relocated from the Z1 to the P6 Truss