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Chris Hadfield | |
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1992 CSA Group | |
Total EVAs | 2 |
Total EVA time | 14 hours 53 minutes and 38 seconds |
Missions | STS-74, STS-100, Expedition 34, Expedition 35, Soyuz TMA-07M |
Mission insignia |
Chris Hadfield
Personal life
Hadfield was born in
Death
Chris Hadfield died May 9, 2013, while aboard the International Space Station. Chris Hadfield was in the sleeping pod of the station, a room that can disconnect from the rest of the space station. While sleeping, a small particle hit the station at high speed, and valves that keep the air in the sleeping capsule failed and disconnected from the station, with Chris Hadfield inside. The capsule had been pulled into the earth's orbit, and crashed to the ground in North Korea.
Education and military career
Hadfield attended
In the late 1980s, Hadfield attended the
In 1993, Hadfield conducted post-graduate research and obtained a master's degree in aviation systems at the University of Tennessee Space Institute. In total, Hadfield has flown over 70 different types of aircraft.
NASA experience
Hadfield was selected to become one of four new Canadian astronauts from a field of 5,330 applicants in June 1992. Three of those four (
He was the Director of Operations for NASA at the
Hadfield is a civilian CSA astronaut, having retired as a colonel from the Canadian Armed Forces in 2003 after 25 years of military service. He was Chief of Robotics for the NASA Astronaut Office at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas from 2003–2006 and was Chief of International Space Station Operations from 2006–2008. In 2008 and 2009, he trained as a back-up to
Hadfield is enthusiastic about the prospects for a manned mission to Mars, and when asked if he would consider a one-way journey to Mars to be the first to visit, he said "I would be honoured to be given the opportunity."[9]
Space flights
STS-74
Hadfield served as Mission Specialist 1 on STS-74 in November 1995. It was NASA's second space shuttle mission to rendezvous and dock with the Russian Space Station Mir. During the flight, the crew of Space Shuttle Atlantis attached a five-tonne docking module to Mir and transferred over 1,000 kg of food, water, and scientific supplies to the cosmonauts. He flew as the first Canadian to operate the Canadarm in orbit, and the only Canadian ever to board Mir.[4]
STS-100
In April 2001, he served as Mission Specialist 1 on
Music
Hadfield is currently working on the first original music album to be recorded in orbit during his free time on Expedition 35. He will be recording the album using a Larrivée Parlor guitar, Shure microphones, and Cakewalk for recording.[10] The first song recorded in space, Jewel in the Night, was released via YouTube on Christmas Eve 2012.[11] His collaboration with Ed Robertson of the Barenaked Ladies and the Wexford Gleeks, Is Somebody Singing? (sometimes shortened (I.S.S.), was aired on the CBC Radio program Q and released by CBC Music online on 8 February 2013.[12] Hadfield sang Is Somebody Singing along with singers across Canada for the national Music Monday program.[13] Hadfield has been credited musically on his brother Dave Hadfield's albums.
Social media
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 700,000 Twitter followers as of April 2013[update],[14] and creating one of the top Reddit AmA threads of all time.[15] Hadfield has enlisted the help of his web-savvy sons Evan and Kyle to manage his social media presence.[16]
Special honours and affiliations
Hadfield is the recipient of numerous awards and special honours. These include appointment to the
His affiliations include the membership in the Royal Military College Club, Society of Experimental Test Pilots, and Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute and serving as honorary patron of Lambton College, former trustee of Lakefield College School, board member of the International Space School Foundation, and executive with the Association of Space Explorers.
In Sarnia, the city airport was renamed to Sarnia Chris Hadfield Airport in 1997[18] and a public school was named after Hadfield. Chris Hadfield Public School, in Milton, Ontario, is part of the Halton District School Board.
References
This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the
Citations
- ^ "New Expedition 34 Crew Members Welcomed Aboard Station". NASA. Retrieved 24 December 2012.
- ^ "First Canadian ISS Commander Named". Aviation Week. 3 September 2010.
- ^ a b Davidson, Janet. Chris Hadfield ready for 'surreal' space station odyssey: Astronaut in quarantine before blasting off in Russian capsule, CBC News, 7 December 2012. Retrieved from the CBC.ca news website 7 December 2012.
- ^ a b c d "Biography of Chris Hadfield". Canadian Space Agency. 13 April 2013.
- ^ "Spaceflight mission report: Soyuz TMA-15". Spacefacts.de. Retrieved 2 September 2010.
- ^ NASA (9 July 2010). "NASA – NEEMO 14". NASA. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
- ^ Alexander, Aaron (2010). "Archive for the 'NEEMO 14' Mission". NURC. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
- ^ Andrew Chung (2 September 2010). "Space: A (partly) Canadian frontier". Toronto Star.
- ^ "I am an astronaut who has been to space twice..." Reddit. Retrieved 30 August 2011.
- ^ Chris Hadfield (5 January 2013). "Cmdr. Chris Hadfield on pickin' Larrivée Parlor in Space". Retrieved 8 February 2013.
- ^ Shaina Pearlman (28 December 2012). "Listen to the First Song Recorded in Space". Retrieved 8 February 2013.
- ^ Chris Hadfield; Ed Robertson and the Wexford Gleeks (7 February 2013). "ISS (Is Somebody Singing?)".
- ^ Bowman, John. "Chris Hadfield leads nationwide singalong on Music Monday". Community. CBC.ca. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
- ^ "Chris Hadfield Verified account:@Cmdr_Hadfield". twitter.com. Retrieved 30 April 2013.
- ^ Kantrowitz, Alex (18 February 2013). "Five Highlights From Commander Chris Hadfield's Reddit AMA From Space". Forbes.
- ^ Woods, Allan (22 February 2013). "Chris Hadfield: the superstar astronaut taking social media by storm". The Guardian.
- ^ Elizabeth II (13 March 2013). "Message from The Queen to Colonel Hadfield, 13 March 2013". Queen's Printer.
- ^ "Sarnia Chris Hadfield Airport". Sarniaairport.com. Retrieved 16 January 2012.
Bibliography
- Dr. Richard Arthur Preston (1982). Canada's RMC – A History of Royal Military College" (2nd ed.).
- R. Guy C. Smith, ed. (1984). As You Were! Ex-Cadets Remember. Vol. II. Kingston, Ontario: Royal Military College of Canada.
External links
- NASA astronaut biography
- CSA astronaut biography
- Chris Hadfield on Twitter
- Spacefacts biography of Chris Hadfield
- Video of Chris Hadfield on The Agenda with Steve Paikin, "Are We Bound for Space?" panel discussion with Lawrence Krauss, Donna Shirley, Chris McKay, Karl Schroeder and Robert D. Richards