Live from Space
Chris Hadfield, (born 29 August 1959 in Sarnia, Ontario) is a Canadian astronaut who was the first Canadian to walk in space. A former Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot, Hadfield has flown
two space shuttle missions, STS-74 in 1995 and STS-100 in 2001,
and served as capsule communicator for both Space Shuttle and International Space Station (ISS) expeditions. On 19 December
2012, Hadfield launched in the Soyuz TMA-07M flight for a long duration stay on
board the ISS as part of Expedition 35. He arrived at the station on 21
December, as scheduled, and became the first Canadian to command the ISS when
the crew of Expedition 34 departed. On 12 May 2013 he turned
over command of the ISS, and safely returned home aboard the Soyuz spacecraft on 13 May. He received significant
media exposure during his time on the ISS, and ended his time on the station by
paying tribute to David Bowie with a
rendition of "Space Oddity".
Hadfield was
described as "perhaps the most social media savvy astronaut ever to leave
Earth" by Forbes after building a considerable audience on social media, including
over 930,000 Twitter followers as of May 2013 and creating one of the top Reddit AmA threads of
all time. He also has a popular Tumblr blog. His exchanges with William Shatner and other Star Trek actors
received media coverage. Hadfield has enlisted the help of his web-savvy sons
Evan and Kyle to manage his social media presence.
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Videos of Chris “Space Oddity” Hadfield: