Good Wednesday Afternoon my Brothers and Sisters...
How many of you are aware of who Chris Hadfield is... Some of you I am sure are aware. In many respects he is just another guy on the street, but for those who know and understand him, He is kind of a special individual...
I chose to share this powerful video with you to give you a better understanding of what it is like to have lived aboard the ISS (International Space Station for six (6) months and what he did there. More so, he was interviewed at one point, after his tour, and provided some extremely salient information in a quasi speech about what being an Astronaut aboard the ISS has taught him as a human being & about our Planet Earth. Here is a partial background segment from Wikipedia:
Chris Hadfield, Backgrounder:
"Chris Austin Hadfield OC OOnt MSC CD (born August 29, 1959) is a retired CSA astronaut, engineer, and former Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot. The first Canadian to walk in space, Hadfield has flown two Space Shuttle missions and served as commander of the International Space Station.
Hadfield was inspired as a child when he watched the Apollo 11 Moon landing on TV. He attended high school in Oakville and Milton in southern Ontario and earned his glider pilot license as a member of the Royal Canadian Air Cadets. After joining the Canadian Armed Forces, he earned an engineering degree at Royal Military College. He learned to fly various types of aircraft in the military and eventually became a test pilot, flying 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.
In 1992, Hadfield was accepted into the Canadian astronaut program by the Canadian Space Agency. He first flew in space in November 1995 as a mission specialist aboard STS-74, visiting the Russian space station Mir. He flew again in April 2001 on STS-100, when he visited the ISS and walked in space to help install the Canadarm2. In December 2012, he flew for a third time aboard Soyuz TMA-07M to join Expedition 34 on the ISS. When this expedition ended in March 2013, he became the commander of the ISS as part of Expedition 35, responsible for a crew of five astronauts and helping to run dozens of scientific experiments dealing with the impact of low gravity on human biology. During this mission, he chronicled life on board the space station by taking pictures of the Earth and posting them on various social media platforms. He was a guest on television news and talk shows and gained popularity by playing the ISS's guitar in space. Hadfield returned to Earth in May 2013 when the mission ended. He announced his retirement shortly after returning, capping a 35-year career as a military pilot and astronaut." Read much more at Wikipedia.com
I hope you all enjoy this wondrous "speech"...
Kerry
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