Chris Hadfield
@Cmdr_Hadfield
Astronaut, back on Earth after 3 spaceflights.
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http://www.chrishadfield.ca 02-09-2010 18:21:55
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I'm speaking at Starmus in 2 weeks along with 8 Nobel Prize winners, Dr. Jane Goodall, plus music with Brian May. Come to beautiful Bratislava!
Tickets: starmus.com 12-17 May ✰Starmus Festival
That is human-made space debris, an old rocket upper stage, orbiting Earth. The smart folks at Astroscale have just flown up next to it, proving their tech. Next time they'll grab & deorbit it, cleaning up a big piece. An excellent start!
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This is how I make my star trails. Sequences of still images assembled until the beauty of Earth from International Space Station reshapes into a new form by the forces of time, nature, and physics.
Thanks to Christopher Malin for making this video clip from my Expedition 30 photographs.
If you look carefully, you can just see the tip tank of my airplane as I fly into T O R O N T O 🍁. Go Toronto Maple Leafs!
In April of 2001, Space Shuttle Endeavour launched on STS-100. It was a mission with the primary objective of installing Canadarm2 at the International Space Station
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield is pictured here on a spacewalk during the mission.
Two weeks from today, Suni and Butch are flying the The Boeing Company Starliner on its maiden piloted flight to space. They're both combat and spaceflight veterans and Navy test pilots. Godspeed.
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