An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

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In 1988, Hadfield was granted the Liethen-Tittle Award (top pilot graduate of the USAF Test Pilot School) and was named US Navy Test Pilot of the Year in 1991. He was inducted into Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame in 2005. Eleven years later, he was recognized as a Genius 100 Visionary [58] and contributed his vision of the future in the 3D publishing milestone '"Genius: 100 Visions of the Future."' [59] Further, the Royal Military College granted Hadfield an honorary Doctorate of Engineering in 1996 and he was presented with an honorary Doctorate of Laws from Trent University three years later. In 2013, Hadfield was presented with an Honorary Diploma from Nova Scotia Community College. [60]

Hadfield, Chris (November 2013). "We Should Treat Earth as Kindly as We Treat Spacecraft". Wired. Vol.21, no.12 . Retrieved December 5, 2016. nurun.com (June 25, 2013). "New school named after Hadfield | Local | News". Barrie Examiner. Archived from the original on November 3, 2013 . Retrieved July 1, 2013. Chris Hadfield sings 'O Canada' at Leafs game". canada.com. Postmedia Network. January 19, 2014 . Retrieved December 6, 2016. Howell, Elizabeth (February 8, 2013). "Astronaut and Musician Perform 1st Original Duet from Space and Earth". Space.com . Retrieved October 31, 2019. Billboard Canadian Albums: Top Albums Chart". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. October 31, 2015 . Retrieved December 6, 2016.A fantastic book! The Darkest Dark does a great job capturing the liveliness of a child's imagination, be it through acting out their aspirations or reacting to their fears. That young Chris goes from fearing the dark to understanding it and therefore conquering his fear, allowing him to follow his dreams is a powerful message. His collaboration with Ed Robertson of Barenaked Ladies and the Wexford Gleeks, Is Somebody Singing?—sometimes shortened I.S.S.—was aired on the CBC Radio program Q and released by CBC Music online on February8, 2013. [37] Hadfield sang Is Somebody Singing along with singers across Canada for the national Music Monday program. [38] [39] Hadfield has been credited musically on his brother Dave Hadfield's albums. He also has performed with his brother the "Canada Song", which was released on YouTube on Canada Day, 2014. [40]

During the day he could let his vivid imagination run rampant as he fought off aliens and traversed through space. In 2017, Hadfield hosted the BBC show Astronauts: Do You Have What It Takes? alongside Kevin Fong and Iya Whiteley, where 12 contestants compete to earn Hadfield's approval and recommendation as a candidate for future applications to become an astronaut. [51] The challenges involved replicated real tests carried out by the different Space Agencies at facilities in Europe and America, including hypoxia and centrifuge training, with contestants eliminated each week.a b "UTSI Grad Aboard Atlantis Space Shuttle" (Press release). University of Tennessee Knoxville. November 14, 1995 . Retrieved June 27, 2013.

Hadfield, Chris; Hadfield, Dave (July 1, 2014). Canada Song (YouTube). Rare Earth . Retrieved July 1, 2014.

On February 9, 2021, Virgin Galactic announced that Hadfield would be joining their Space Advisory Board to help "provide advice to senior management as the company moves forward to open space for the benefit of all." [54] Hadfield will be joined by former astronaut Sandra Magnus and Chief Scientist of Cubic Corporation David A. Whelan. Woods, Allan (February 22, 2013). "Chris Hadfield: the superstar astronaut taking social media by storm". The Guardian. London. Inspired by the childhood of real-life astronaut Chris Hadfield and brought to life by Terry and Eric Fan's lush, evocative illustrations, The Darkest Dark will encourage readers to dream the impossible. Astronaut Chris Hadfield (famous for his viral videos from the International Space Station) shares how he was afraid of the dark when he was little. This is a good book for talking about overcoming your fears and following your dreams (and the first moonwalk).

Famous fans of the Toronto Maple Leafs". metronews.ca. Metro International. April 23, 2013. Archived from the original on December 20, 2016 . Retrieved December 6, 2016. A young boy dreams of space but fears the dark in this engaging picture-book autobiography from Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, co-written with Kate Fillion and illustrated by the fabulously talented Fan brothers. Convinced that aliens are lurking in the dark, young Chris has trouble at bedtime, and doesn't really want to sleep in a separate room from his parents. But when he watches the Apollo 11 moon landing on TV in July of 1969, while on vacation on Stag Island, Ontario, he realizes that outer space, the very thing he finds most entrancing, is the darkest dark there is. This leads to a reassessment of what darkness is, and how he feels about it, as well as to a life-long goal of getting out into that darkness... Knapp, Alex (May 13, 2013). "Astronaut Chris Hadfield Sings David Bowie As He Departs The International Space Station". Forbes . Retrieved May 29, 2013. Hadfield was commemorated on Royal Canadian Mint silver and gold coins for his spacewalk to install Canadarm2 on the International Space Station in 2001. [6] In Sarnia, the city airport was renamed to Sarnia Chris Hadfield Airport in 1997 [61] and there are two public schools named after him – one in Milton, Ontario and the other in Bradford, Ontario. [62] [63] The asteroid 14143 Hadfield is also named after him. In 2005, 820 Milton Blue Thunder Squadron was renamed 820 Chris Hadfield Squadron in honour of Hadfield, who was a cadet there from 1971 to 1978. [64] The Town of Milton also named a municipal park and street after Hadfield. [65] His name was in 2014 added to the Wall of Honour at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario, [66] and, in 2020, the newly discovered Andrena hadfieldi, a species of bee, was named in his honour. [67]LeBlanc, Steve (April 6, 2017). "STREET SMARTS: Milton's Chris Hadfield Way has 'out of this world' connection". www.insidehalton.com . Retrieved December 2, 2017. 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. On December 19, 2012, Hadfield launched in the Soyuz TMA-07M flight for a long duration stay on board the ISS as part of Expedition 35. He arrived at the station two days later, as scheduled, [23] and became the first Canadian to command the ISS when the crew of Expedition 34 departed in March 2013. [6] On May 12, 2013, he turned over command of the ISS, and returned home aboard the Soyuz spacecraft on May 13. [24] He received significant media exposure during his time on the ISS, and ended his time on the station by paying tribute to David Bowie with a rendition of " Space Oddity". [25] Social media