in CanadaThe astronaut who turned the International Space Station into a social media studio - posting Earth photos, strumming a guitar in zero-g, and making spaceflight feel newly intimate to millions watching from below.
Photos 6
Chris Hadfield in 2012
Hadfield spacewalking during the STS-100 mission
Hadfield answering media questions during unveiling of the Canadian $5 Frontier Series banknote during Expedition 35 on April 30, 2013. He unveiled the $10 banknote on the same day.
Hadfield with Rusty Schweickart, Alexei Leonov and Garrett Reisman at the Starmus Festival in 2016
Hadfield at Brain Bar Budapest, 2016Listen
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1.1M subscribersFilmography 8
Space Station 3D
The Magic School Bus Rides Again: Kids in Space
Bowie: The Final Act
The Truth Is in the Stars
One Strange Rock
Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble
Miniverse
Curious People: An Incomplete History of Nine Lessons & Compendium15 credits on file
Television 6
Tout le monde en parle
One Strange Rock
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Corner Gas Animated
MasterChef Canada
Astronauts: Do You Have What It Takes?Awards 10
In their orbit 1
Connected to Chris 6
Kate McKinnonAlso in The Magic School Bus Rides Again: Kids in Space (2020)
Joanna ColeAlso in The Magic School Bus Rides Again: Kids in Space (2020)
Dan AykroydAlso won Canada's Walk of Fame
Stephen HarperAlso won Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal
Theresa MayAlso won Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal
Catherine O'HaraAlso won Canada's Walk of FameAbout this person
Chris Hadfield watched Apollo 11 land on television as a child in 1959 and built his life toward orbit: glider licence through the Air Cadets, engineering degree at Royal Military College, 25 years as a Canadian Armed Forces fighter pilot and test pilot. In 1992 the Canadian Space Agency accepted him into the astronaut program. He flew to Mir in 1995, returned to the ISS in 2001 to help install Canadarm2 during a spacewalk - the first Canadian to walk in space - and launched a third time in December 2012 aboard Soyuz TMA-07M. When Expedition 34 ended in March 2013, he became ISS commander, overseeing five astronauts and dozens of experiments on low-gravity biology. He chronicled the mission through photographs and appearances on news shows, his guitar performances in the station's modules turning him into an unlikely ambassador for life 400 kilometers up. He retired in May 2013 after 35 years, then wrote a New York Times bestseller about what he learned.
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