Canadian Astronaut David Saint-Jacques Set to Blast Off to Space on Monday

CSA astronaut David Saint Jacques walks to the rocket prior to the launch of Soyuz-FG rocket at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on Dec. 3, 2018. AP Photo/Shamil Zhumatov, Pool

MONTREAL—Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques won’t be carrying much with him when he leaves Earth to blast off to the International Space Station on Dec. 3.

If all goes according to plan, he will take off at 6:31 a.m. Eastern time from the steppes of Kazakhstan on the first manned Russian rocket launch since a dramatic aborted Soyuz failure in October.