Chris Hadfield Biography

Chris Hadfield, Astronaut
Born asChris Austin Hadfield
Occup.Astronaut
FromCanada
BornAugust 29, 1959
Sarnia, Ontario
Age64 years
Hadfield obtained a BS in Mechanical Design in 1982 from the Royal Military University in Kingston (Ontario). In 1992 he obtained a master's in aerial design from the University of Tennessee.

In 1978, Hadfield at the Canadian Pressures as well as completed after the bachelor's level program at the Canadian Flying force pilot. There he was shut off lengthy three years to NORAD in 1985 as well as flew the CF-18 competitor aircraft. Hadfield additionally finished training as a test pilot at Edwards Air Force Base.

1992, Hadfield 5330 used effectively against competitors for the Canadian area program and after that changed to training at the Johnson Room Facility of NASA. While 25 shuttle goals Hadfield was used as a conductive linking speakers (Capcom). From 1996 to 2000 he was head of the CSA astronaut.

On 12 September 1995 released Hadfield with the Space Shuttle Atlantis right into its initial mission (STS-74) space. This objective was made in Russia, designed and also built SDM module coupling to the spaceport station Mir. In addition, the spaceport station was supplied with products.

Hadfield's second room trip started on 19 April 2001 with the Space Capsule Endeavour on goal STS-100. Throughout the flight to the International Spaceport Station (ISS) Canadarm2 robot arm of the Canadian as well as was carried for the first time, the logistics module Raffaello. In 2 outboard mounted Hadfield activities along with Scott Parazynski's robotic arm on the ISS.

Hadfield was after that from 2001 to 2003, the Director of Workflow for NASA at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia Swjosdny Gorodok.

2003 Hadfield retired from the Canadian Flying Force after 25 years of armed forces solution and also civilian astronaut is currently the CSA. From 2003 to 2006 he was director of the Robotics Division at the Johnson Room Facility in Houston as well as is now supervisor of ISS procedures.

Our collection contains 6 quotes who is written / told by Chris.

Related authors: Yuri Gagarin (Astronaut), Lawrence Taylor (Athlete)

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6 Famous quotes by Chris Hadfield

Small: And now for Return to Flight, Im chief of robotics working in the astronaut office in Houston, as a Can
"And now for Return to Flight, I'm chief of robotics working in the astronaut office in Houston, as a Canadian"
Small: Ive had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride
"I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride"
Small: Ive been lucky enough to fly to space twice
"I've been lucky enough to fly to space twice"
Small: So without that Canadian invention we were grounded. And so that was a really important and key part of
"So without that Canadian invention we were grounded. And so that was a really important and key part of the mission and Canadians should take real pride in it"
Small: It is spectacular. From about five minutes in, when we knew for sure that we were going to have the wea
"It is spectacular. From about five minutes in, when we knew for sure that we were going to have the weather to go, the smile on my face just got bigger and bigger, and I was just beaming through the whole launch. I mean, it is just an amazing ride"
Small: Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured
"Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence of a physician"