After the 2012–2013 NHL Lockout ended, Hadfield tweeted a photo of himself holding a Maple Leafs logo, and stated he was "ready to cheer on from orbit". He is a devoted fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs, and wore a Leafs jersey under his spacesuit during his Soyuz TMA-07M re-entry in May 2013. Hadfield is of northern English and southern Scottish descent. Hadfield used to be a ski instructor at Glen Eden Ski Area before becoming a test pilot. He is married to his high-school girlfriend Helene, with whom he has three children: Kyle, Evan, and Kristin Hadfield. He became interested in flying at a young age and in being an astronaut at age nine, when he saw the Apollo 11 Moon landing on television. He was a member of a Wolf Cub Pack that met at the Milton Fairgrounds. Hadfield was raised on a corn farm in southern Ontario. His parents are Roger and Eleanor Hadfield, who live in Milton, Ontario. He has five published books including his autobiography, the NYT-bestseller An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth. He announced his retirement shortly after returning, capping a 35-year-long career as a military pilot and astronaut. Hadfield returned to Earth in May 2013, when the mission ended. He was a guest on television news and talk shows and gained popularity by playing the ISS's guitar in space. During this mission, he chronicled life onboard the space station by taking pictures of Earth and posting them on various social media platforms. When Expedition 34 ended in March 2013, Hadfield 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. In December 2012, he flew for a third time aboard Soyuz TMA-07M to join Expedition 34 on the ISS. He flew again in April 2001 on STS-100, when he visited the ISS and walked in space to help install Canadarm2. He first flew in space in November 1995 as a mission specialist aboard STS-74, visiting the Russian space station Mir. In 1992, Hadfield was accepted into the Canadian astronaut program by the Canadian Space Agency. 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. Hadfield learned to fly various types of aircraft in the military and eventually became a test pilot, flying several experimental planes. After enlisting in the Canadian Armed Forces, he earned an engineering degree at the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario. He attended high school in Oakville and Milton in southern Ontario, and earned his glider pilot licence as a member of the Royal Canadian Air Cadets. Hadfield has cited part of his career inspiration to have come to him as a child, when he watched the first crewed Moon landing by American spaceflight Apollo 11 on television. Prior to his career as an astronaut, he served in the Canadian Armed Forces for 25 years as an Air Command fighter pilot. The first Canadian to perform extravehicular activity in outer space, he has flown two Space Shuttle missions and also served as commander of the International Space Station (ISS). Original article on Austin Hadfield OC OOnt MSC CD (born August 29, 1959) is a Canadian retired astronaut, engineer, fighter pilot, musician, and writer. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Google+. "Not only have the efforts of Expedition 35 been extraordinary, but you've manage to bring us all along with you on your space odyssey."įollow Miriam Kramer on Twitter and Google+. "You, the crew of Expedition 35, have been nothing short of tremendous," Mission Control officials radioed to the station crew. The departure of the three Expedition 35 spaceflyers will leave three crewmembers on the station until a new crew of three is launched to the station at the end of the month. You can watch the Soyuz landing live on via NASA TV. The astronauts will undock from the station at 7:08 p.m. Hadfield, NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn and Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko are getting ready to board their Soyuz capsule for a planned landing on the Central Asian steppes of Kazakhstan at 10:31 p.m. He was also very active on Twitter, posting photos and information about his unique vantage point above the planet daily. Hadfield has also sent back videos explaining everything from how astronauts make a sandwich to how they cut their nails in microgravity.
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