Chris Austin Hadfield
CSA Astronaut
Nationality	Canadian
Status	Active
Born	August 29, 1959 (1959-08-29) (age 48) Sarnia, Ontario
Other occupation	Test pilot
Rank	Colonel, Canadian Air Force
Space time	20d 02h 02m
Selection	1992 CSA Group
Missions	STS-74, STS-100
Mission insignia

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Hadfield was born in Sarnia, Ontario. He attended Montclair Senior School and White Oaks High School in Oakville, and graduated as an Ontario Scholar from Milton District High School in 1977. In 2005, Colonel Hadfield revisited Montclair to talk to the students about dreams and determination. In Milton, Hadfield was a Wolf Cub and later joined the Royal Canadian Air Cadets' 820 Blue Thunder Squadron. In 2005, the squadron was renamed 820 Chris Hadfield Squadron in his honour. Sarnia is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada (city population 71,419, census area population 88,793, in 2006). ... White Oaks Secondary School is a Secondary School located in the Toronto suburb of Oakville, Ontario. ... Oakville (2006 population 165,613[2]) is a town on Lake Ontario in southern Ontario, Canada, midway between Toronto (about 31 km or 19 mi away) on its eastern border and Hamilton (about 20 km or 12 mi away) from its western border. ... Milton District High School (MDHS) is a public secondary school located in Milton, Ontario, Canada. ... Cub Scouts in uniform from Hong Kong A Cub Scout is a member of the section of the worldwide Scouting movement for young persons normally aged 8–10. ... Royal Canadian Air Cadets (RCAirC) is a Canadian national youth program for persons aged 12 to 18. ...

Hadfield earned a mechanical engineering degree from the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario in 1982. He conducted post-graduate research at the University of Waterloo, Ontario in 1982 and received a Master of Science in aviation systems at the University of Tennessee in 1992. The Royal Military College of Canada (RMC), is the military academy of the Canadian Forces and is a full degree-granting university. ... Murney Tower, Kingston The Fort Henry Guard performing an historical demonstration The Prince George Hotel Kingston, Ontario, the first capital[1] of Canada, is located at the eastern end of Lake Ontario, where the lake runs into the St. ... The University of Waterloo (also referred to as UW, UWaterloo, or Waterloo) is a research-intensive public university in the city of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. ... The University of Tennessee (UT), sometimes called the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT Knoxville or UTK), is the flagship institution of the statewide land-grant University of Tennessee public university system in the American state of Tennessee. ...

Hadfield trained as a pilot in the Canadian Forces and was top graduate in his jet training class in 1983. He flew CF-18 fighter jets on NORAD missions for three years. During this time, Hadfield is credited with the first CF-18 intercept of a Soviet "Bear" aircraft off Canada's Atlantic coast. The Canadian Forces (CF) (French: Forces canadiennes (FC)) are the unified armed forces of Canada, governed by the National Defence Act, which states: The Canadian Forces are the armed forces of Her Majesty raised by Canada and consist of one Service called the Canadian Armed Forces. ... The CF-18 Hornet is a Canadian Forces aircraft, based on the American F/A-18 Hornet. ... NORAD Headquarters Building. ... CCCP redirects here. ... The Tupolev Tu-95 (Туполев Ту–95) (NATO reporting name Bear) is the most successful and longest-serving Tupolev strategic bomber and missile carrier built by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. ...

Hadfield attended the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base in California. His work then turned to research and testing as an exchange officer with the U.S. Navy at Strike Aircraft Test Directorate, Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division in Maryland. The U.S. Air Force Flight Test School is located on Edwards Air Force Base in California. ... Edwards Air Force Base (IATA: EDW, ICAO: KEDW) is a United States Air Force airbase located on the border of Kern County and Los Angeles County, California in the Antelope Valley, 7 miles (11 km) due east of Rosamond. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... The United States Navy (USN) is the branch of the United States armed forces responsible for naval operations. ... Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, is a United States Navy Naval Air Station located in St. ... Official language(s) None (English, de facto) Capital Annapolis Largest city Baltimore Largest metro area Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area Area  Ranked 42nd  - Total 12,407 sq mi (32,133 km²)  - Width 101 miles (145 km)  - Length 249 miles (400 km)  - % water 21  - Latitude 37° 53′ N to 39° 43′ N...

In 1992, Hadfield successfully competed with more than 5300 applicants to join Canada's space program, and was assigned to NASA's Johnson Space Center. For 25 Shuttle missions, Hadfield was, "the voice of mission control:" the Chief CAPCOM for NASA. For other uses, see NASA (disambiguation). ... An aerial view of the complete Johnson Space Center facility in Houston, Texas in 1989. ... During much of the U.S. manned space program, NASA felt it was important for all communication with the astronauts in space to pass through a single individual in the Mission Control Center. ...

For his first shuttle mission (STS-74) in 1995, Hadfield was Mission Specialist #1 on Atlantis, operating the Canadarm for NASA's second space shuttle mission to rendezvous with the Russian Space Station Mir. On his next mission (STS-100), as Mission Specialist on Endeavour in 2001, Hadfield spent 14 hours, 54 minutes outside the craft on two spacewalks, including the first by a Canadian. On this mission, the crew used the Canadarm2 robotic arm to support assembly of the new International Space Station. STS-74 is a Space Shuttle program mission. ... Space Shuttle Orbiter Atlantis (NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-104) is one of the fleet of space shuttles belonging to the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). ... The Remote Manipulator System (RMS) on the Space Shuttle, also known as the Canadarm, is an electromechanical arm that maneuvers a payload from the payload bay of the space shuttle orbiter to its deployment position and then releases it. ... For other uses, see Mir (disambiguation). ... STS-100 was a successful mission of the United States Space Shuttle Endeavour, intended to supply and service the International Space Station. ... Space Shuttle Orbiter Endeavour (NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-105), is the fifth and final operational NASA space shuttle. ... ISS Canadarm2 (NASA) The Mobile Servicing System (MSS) is a robotic arm and associated equipment on the International Space Station that plays a key role in station assembly and maintenance: moving equipment and supplies around the station, supporting astronauts working in space, and servicing instruments and other payloads attached to... ISS redirects here. ...

From 2001 to 2003, Hadfield was NASA's Director of Operations at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. The Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre was inaugurated on January 11, 1960 in Star City outside Moscow. ... Star City (Звездный) is a small town outside Moscow where cosmonauts are trained for spacetravel at the Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Centre (GCTC). ...

Hadfield retired from the Canadian Forces as a Colonel in 2003 after 25 years of service. He is now a civilian CSA astronaut and is Chief of International Space Station Operations for the NASA Astronaut Office at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Chris Hadfield is married and has three children.

Awards and honors

Sarnia's airport was renamed Chris Hadfield Airport in his honour in 1997. In Milton, he is namesake to Chris Hadfield Public School, Chris Hadfield Park, and Chris Hadfield Way, a street, and most recently the 820 Chris Hadfield Air Cadet Squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Cadets. Sarnia (Chris Hadfield) Airport, (IATA: YZR, ICAO: CYZR), is located 4. ... Royal Canadian Air Cadets (RCAirC) is a Canadian national youth program for persons aged 12 to 18. ...

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References

External links

• NASA astronaut biography
• CSA astronaut biography
• Spacefacts biography of Chris Hadfield