Chris Hadfield Quotes

• Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you and start moving your life in that direction…

  Chris Hadfield

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• The Moon has given us months, tides and a destination that ever-beckons. It’s time we build a rocket and go to stay.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

  Chris Hadfield

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• I’ve had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride.

  Chris Hadfield

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• I’ve been lucky enough to fly to space twice.

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• And now for Return to Flight, I’m chief of robotics working in the astronaut office in Houston, as a Canadian.

  Chris Hadfield

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Chris Hadfield (8)

Birth:	29th August, 1959
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Astronaut, Pilot

About

Chris Austin Hadfield was born in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. He is a retired Canadian astronaut who was the first Canadian to walk in space. An engineer and former Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot, Hadfield has flown two space shuttle missions and served as commander of the International Space Station. He joined the Canadian Armed Forces and earned an engineering degree at Royal Military College. He obtained a master's degree in aviation systems at the University of Tennessee Space Institute.

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