Chris Austin Hadfield

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Chris Hadfield
Chris Hadfield
Country: CanadaCanada Canada
Organization: Canadian Space AgencyCSA CSA
selected on March 31, 1992
( NASA 14th Group )
June 9, 1992 (CSA)
Calls: 3 space flights
Start of the
first space flight: 		November 12, 1995
Landing of the
last space flight: 		May 14, 2013
Time in space: 165d 16h 21min
EVA inserts: 2
EVA total duration: 14h 50min
retired on 3rd July 2013
Space flights

Chris Austin Hadfield (born August 29, 1959 in Sarnia , Province of Ontario ) is a retired Canadian astronaut .

Professional background

military

Hadfield joined the Canadian Armed Forces in 1978 and, after completing his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering at the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario, completed a pilot course with the Canadian Air Force. There he was posted to NORAD for three years from 1985 and flew the CF-18 fighter aircraft. Hadfield also completed training as a test pilot at Edwards Air Force Base . In 1992 he received a Masters in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Tennessee . In 2003 he retired as a Colonel of the RCAF .

Astronaut activity

In 1992, Hadfield successfully applied against 5330 competitors for the Canadian space program and then switched to training at NASA's Johnson Space Center . Hadfield was the chief liaison officer ( Capcom ) during 25 shuttle missions . From 1996 to 2000 he was head of the CSA astronauts.

On November 12, 1995, Hadfield launched the space shuttle Atlantis on its first mission ( STS-74 ). During this mission, the SDM coupling module, developed and built in Russia, was brought to the Mir space station. In addition, the space station was supplied with supplies.

Hadfield took off for his second space flight on April 19, 2001 with the space shuttle Endeavor for the STS-100 mission . The Canadian robotic arm Canadarm2 and, for the first time, the logistics module Raffaello were carried on this flight to the International Space Station (ISS) . Two spacewalks mounted Hadfield along with Scott Parazynski the robot arm on the ISS.

Hadfield then from 2001 to 2003 was Director of Operations at NASA at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia .

In 2003 Hadfield retired from the Canadian Air Force after 25 years of military service and was then a civilian astronaut for the CSA. From 2003 to 2006 he was head of robotics and until 2008 head of ISS operations at the Johnson Space Center in Houston . From May 2007 to May 2009 he trained as a backup of Robert Thirsk for the ISS Expedition 21 . In May 2010, Hadfield served as the commander of the NEEMO-14 mission at the Aquarius underwater laboratory .

In December 2012, Hadfield took Soyuz TMA-07M to the ISS to work as a flight engineer on ISS Expedition 34 . On March 15, 2013, he became the first Canadian to take command of the ISS as part of ISS Expedition 35 . The crew returned to Earth on May 14, 2013.

On July 3, 2013, Hadfield left the CSA to pursue new responsibilities.

Summary

No. mission function Flight date Flight duration
1 STS-74 Mission specialist 1995 8d 04h 31m
2 STS-100 Mission specialist 2001 11d 21h 31m
3 Soyuz TMA-07M Flight engineer / ISS commander 2012/2013 145d 14h 19m

Hadfield in the media

After he took command of the ISS, media interest in Hadfield and his work grew steadily. Queen Elizabeth sent him a personal message, William Shatner got in touch with Hadfield as Captain Kirk via a live link and Hadfield's messages from the space station were extremely well received on social networks. Around 2.3 million people follow him on the microblogging portal Twitter alone (as of April 2020). On the occasion of his return flight to earth from ISS Expedition 34/35, a cover version of David Bowie's Space Oddity sung by Hadfield and a music video shot on the space station were published on the Internet . This clip was viewed over 12 million times in four days. A year later, after the video had been viewed about 22 million times, the license agreement with the rights owners of the song expired and the video had to be removed. The video has been online again since November 2014.

In October 2015, an album called Space Sessions: Songs from a Tin Can was released , which made it to number 10 in the Canadian charts . Hadfield was also the bass guitarist for the astronaut band Max Q for some time .

Hadfield continued to appear in the media even after he left his astronaut career. He markets his popularity as a commercial speaker.

Private

Hadfield grew up on a corn farm in southern Ontario and developed an interest in flying from an early age - at the age of nine he had the idea of ​​becoming an astronaut when he saw the Apollo moon landing on television. Chris Hadfield is married with three grown children.

See also

Publications

  • Instructions for weightlessness - What we can learn for life in space. From the Canadian English by Elisabeth Schmalen and Johanna Wais. Heyne, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-453-20068-5 .
  • You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes. English version. Pan, main market edition October 22, 2015, ISBN 978-1-447-27862-7
  • The Darkest Dark. English version. Macmillan Children's Books, June 1, 2017 Major Edition ISBN 978-1-509-82409-0

Web links

Commons : Chris Hadfield  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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  1. ^ Soyuz TMA-15. Spacefacts.de, December 23, 2011, accessed June 20, 2012 .
  2. ^ NEEMO 14. NASA, July 9, 2010, accessed June 20, 2012 (English).
  3. ^ Günther Glatzel: Crew of Soyuz-TMA 06M landed. raumfahrer.net, March 16, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Canada Welcomes Home Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield. CSA, June 10, 2013, archived from the original on June 19, 2013 ; accessed on June 11, 2013 .
  5. ^ Astronaut Chris Hadfield to retire from Canadian Space Agency. The Globe and Mail, June 10, 2013, accessed June 11, 2013 .
  6. ^ Elizabeth II: Message from the Queen to Colonel Hadfield. March 13, 2013, accessed January 5, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Captain Kirk calls Chris Hadfield at space station. CBC / Radio-Canada, February 7, 2013, accessed April 16, 2018 .
  8. ↑ @Cmdr_Hadfield on Twitter
  9. ↑ Music video: "Space Oddity" by Chris Hadfield. May 13, 2013, accessed May 13, 2013 .
  10. ↑ Canadian Albums (October 31, 2015) , Billboard
  11. ↑ Book Chris Hadfield for Speaking Engagements and Events . In: chrishadfield.ca , accessed August 31, 2019.
  12. ↑ Janet Davison: Chris Hadfield ready for 'surreal' space station odyssey. Astronaut in quarantine before blasting off in Russian capsule. CBC News, December 7, 2012, accessed May 17, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Hadfield, Chris Austin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian astronaut
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Sarnia , Ontario