Chris Hadfield
Chris Austin Hadfield OC OOnt MSC CD (born 29 August 1959) is a retired Canadian astronaut who was the first Canadian to walk in space. An engineer and former Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot, Hadfield has flown two space shuttle missions and served as commander of the International Space Station.
Hadfield, who was raised on a farm in southern Ontario, was inspired as a child when he watched the Apollo 11 Moon landing on TV. He attended high school in Oakville and Milton and earned his glider pilot licence as a member of the Royal Canadian Air Cadets. He joined the Canadian Armed Forces and earned an engineering degree at Royal Military College. While in the military he learned to fly various types of aircraft and eventually became a test pilot and flew several experimental planes. As part of an exchange program with the United States Navy and United States Air Force, he obtained a master’s degree in aviation systems at the University of Tennessee Space Institute.
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Chris Hadfield: in space ‘you recognise the unanimity of our existence’
He captured our imagination with a zero gravity cover of David Bowie’s Space Oddity, but Chris Hadfield’s time in space was a multi-facted, ‘enriching’ experience. The astronaut and Twitter phenomenon talks about the wonder of spacewalking and why he’ll never look as good as Sandra Bullock in a spacesuit.
Chris Hadfield sings David Bowie’s Space Oddity on the International Space Station
It is a disorienting business, being in space, and most astronauts in the first days of orbit scan the Earth for reminders of home. The Russians look for their great lakes; the Americans for mountain ranges. For Chris Hadfield, the former commander of the International Space Station, it was Plank Road, a 19th-century thoroughfare running through southern Ontario, Canada. «These guys put it there 150 years ago, and it was a neat thing for me to see from orbit. Hey, look! That’s where I’m from!» After a few days, the perceptive lens widens. «And you just start seeing the whole world.»
The Guardian | Chris Hadfield: in space ‘you recognise the unanimity of our existence’
Chris Hadfield, el astronauta que nos llevó a todos al espacio
Por Eduardo Marin el 13 de mayo de 2013, 22:00
El astronauta Chris Hadfield nos enseñó día a día cómo es la vida en el espacio, mediante vídeos y tweets. Hoy, luego de casi cinco meses, regresa a La Tierra como alguien que ha incentivado el estudio científico del espacio en miles de niños, y que además grabó el primer vídeo musical desde el espacio.
Chris Hadfield (Wikimedia Commons)
Comenzando por algo más que obvio, actualmente existe una manera infalible de transmitir un mensaje a enormes grupos de personas. La Internet se presta para esto de una manera fantástica, e incluso las redes sociales, donde podemos compartir un mensaje a millones en cuestión de segundos. Esto se presenta como la mayor herramienta que se puede usar para la divulgación científica, y sin duda alguna Chris Hadfield ha sabido hacerlo, llevando la vida en el espacio a través de internet a todo mundo, como nadie nunca antes lo había hecho, y con resultados espectaculares.
Hipertextual | Chris Hadfield, el astronauta que nos llevó a todos al espacio
Why I love the world: Astronaut Chris Hadfield
By Jim Benning
28 May 2015
The Canadian who captivated the planet with music videos and social media updates from space talks about his globetrotting travels on Earth.
Chris Hadfield was already a veteran astronaut by the time he became a global internet phenomenon. He’d flown a space shuttle to the Russian space station Mir in 1995 and had done his first stint aboard the International Space Station in 2001. But it was his time aboard the latter, from December 2012 to May 2013, that made the astronaut a full-fledged star.
His photos of Earth and accompanying observations, which he posted to Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites, inspired legions of followers. Then the guitar-playing astronaut released a captivating music video in which he sang David Bowie’s Space Oddity while floating in zero gravity – a performance viewed more than 25 million times.
BBC Travel | Why I love the world: Astronaut Chris Hadfield
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