Chris Hadfield
Sign in to saveAlso known as Chris A. Hadfield, Commander Hadfield, Cmdr. Hadfield, Hadfield, Col. Chris Hadfield
Canadian astronaut
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1959
- Works
- 7
Top works
- The Defector
- Orbite finale
- Die Apollo Morde
- The Darkest Dark
- Earth, Spirit of Place
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Chris Hadfield (born 29 August 1959 in Sarnia, Ontario) is a Canadian astronaut who was the first Canadian to walk in space. A former Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot, Hadfield has flown two space shuttle missions, STS-74 in 1995 and STS-100 in 2001, and served as capsule communicator for both Space Shuttle and International Space Station (ISS) expeditions. On 19 December 2012, Hadfield launched in the Soyuz TMA-07M flight for a long duration stay on board the ISS as part of Expedition 35.
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 51,004x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,612x
- Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data
· 2012 · cited 17,960x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,760x
- Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant
· 1998 · cited 16,266x
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Key facts
- Born
- Chris Austin Hadfield , ( 1959-08-29 ) August 29, 1959 (age 66) , Sarnia , Ontario, Canada
- Education
- Royal Roads Military College Royal Military College ( BEng ) University of Waterloo University of Tennessee Space Institute ( MSc )
- Spouse
- Helene Walter ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. December 23, 1981</span>"}]]}'>1981 )
- Awards
- Order of Canada (2014) Diamond Jubilee Medal (2012) NASA Exceptional Service Medal (2002) Golden Jubilee Medal (2002) Order of Ontario (1996)
- Time in space
- 165 days, 16 hours, 18 minutes
- Selection
- 1992 CSA Group , NASA Group 14 (1992)
- Total eva time
- 14 hours, 50 minutes
- Missions
- STS-74 STS-100 Soyuz TMA-07M ( Expedition 34 / 35 )
- Retirement
- July 3, 2013
- Allegiance
- Canada
- Branch
- Air Command
- Service years
- 1978–2003
- Rank
- Colonel
- Website
- chrishadfield .ca
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Encyclopedic overview
Chris Austin Hadfield (born August 29, 1959) is a retired Royal Canadian Air Force colonel, test pilot, and CSA astronaut. As 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). Prior to his career as an astronaut, he served in the Canadian Armed Forces for 25 years as an Air Command fighter pilot.
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. 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. After enlisting in the Canadian Armed Forces, he earned an engineering degree at the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario. Hadfield 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chris Hadfield” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.