Chris Hadfield

Chris Austin Hadfield, OOnt CD, (born August 29, 1959) is a Canadian retired astronaut. The first Canadian to walk in space, he has flown on two space shuttle missions and also served as commander of the International Space Station. That made him the first Canadian to serve as commander of the International Space Station. He led Expedition 35 after its launch on 19 December 2012. He was previously a a Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot. 

Forbes described Hadfield as "perhaps the most social media savvy astronaut ever to leave Earth" with an audience all over the internet including over 2,000,000 Twitter followers, over 600,000 Facebook fans, one of the top Reddit AmA threads of all time, and a popular Tumblr blog.

Hadfield wrote a memoir, An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, and published it in 2013. The book became a New York Times bestseller and was the bestselling book in Canada on a Canadian subject.

References

Other websites
Official website
Chris Hadfield  at NASA.gov

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