THE CANADIAN PRESS: Canadian Astronaut and ISS commander Chris
Hadfield is framed by spacesuitsa s he performs David Bowie's Space
Oddity on the International Space Station, published on Sunday May 12,
2013. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, CSA - Chris Hadfield
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan — Astronaut Chris Hadfield returned to Earth
Monday night after a five-month mission at the International Space
Station that saw him become the first Canadian to command the orbiting
laboratory.
The 53-year-old touched down in Kazakhstan on a Russian Soyuz capsule which was also carrying Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko and NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn — the same pair Hadfield blasted off with on Dec. 19, 2012.
The journey was Hadfield's first return space flight inside the cramped Russian space capsule. The craft tore into the atmosphere before a parachute opened, slowing its descent until it hit the ground at 10:31 p.m. ET...Read more...
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BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan — Astronaut Chris Hadfield returned to Earth
Monday night after a five-month mission at the International Space
Station that saw him become the first Canadian to command the orbiting
laboratory.The 53-year-old touched down in Kazakhstan on a Russian Soyuz capsule which was also carrying Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko and NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn — the same pair Hadfield blasted off with on Dec. 19, 2012.
The journey was Hadfield's first return space flight inside the cramped Russian space capsule. The craft tore into the atmosphere before a parachute opened, slowing its descent until it hit the ground at 10:31 p.m. ET...Read more...
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