Chris Hadfield
@Cmdr_Hadfield
Astronaut, back on Earth after 3 spaceflights. For events and media, please write to [email protected] Order books at http://chrishadfield.ca/books
It's great to sleep weightless! No pillow needed, completely relax every muscle. Space spa. youtube.com/watch?v=UyFYge…
Is it difficult to fall asleep in microgravity? 🙏
SIGNED BOOK NEWS! FINAL ORBIT, the brand new space thriller from the world's favourite astronaut Chris Hadfield @Cmdr_Hadfield is published in October. But here's something. You can order a SIGNED copy now! From me! ORDER HERE! biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copies/…
We have trapped enough water behind dams to drop global sea level by nearly an inch. It also slightly slowed Earth's rotation, and caused polar wander of about 1 meter. news.agu.org/press-release/… @theAGU (photo: Dave Cross CC BY-NC-SA)
The waters of Kuwait, gorgeous blues, with a bright red ship for scale. Science & art together - imaged by a smart wee satellite called Φsat-2. esa.int/ESA_Multimedia… @esa
Skyfall - six scout helicopters to Mars, to explore landing sites for the first Martian astronauts. Very cool idea! @NASA @aerovironment prnewswire.com/news-releases/…
We made history with Ingenuity, the first powered flight on another planet. Now, we’re ready to do it again. Introducing Skyfall: a potential future Mars mission concept developed with @NASAJPL for next-gen Mars Helicopters to help explore resources, scout potential landing…
Lovely insights into Jacob's life - glad to be a small part of it. Relish our differences - we need them. melangeandco.com/jacobs-journey/
The camera that took this image was getting smoked by radiation - the @NASAJuno team figured out how to fix it, from 560 million miles / 900 million km away. Human ingenuity & tenacity are amazing. jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-shar…
When we slammed the DART probe into an asteroid to deflect it, over a hundred big boulders were blasted into space at 100 mph. Learning how to protect Earth. cmns.umd.edu/news-events/ne… @NASA @UMDscience
This big Moon rock, brought back by the Apollo 14 crew, contains a small piece of the Earth (blasted there by an asteroid after forming in a water-rich environment 19 km beneath Earth's surface). web.archive.org/web/2022101106… @NASA
Those three flew that rocket to the Moon, and with Mike orbiting, Neil and Buzz walked on the surface 56 years ago today. One of the greatest achievements in all of history, it still inspires the world.
Amazing video from space last night - watch the @SpaceX Dragon trunk burn up as the capsule scoots safely ahead, @Axiom_Space Ax-4 crew inside, headed to splashdown. (video from @sen's camera on the space station)
Do those images on the left look like water flowing downhill on Mars? This new Swiss/US study thinks they’re dry flows - wind-driven dust. Need to go look, maybe find alien life. nature.com/articles/s4146…
How do we take group photos in space? We cannot ask a passerby for help, so we set up a camera to take a photo every 5 seconds, get in position, then stop to smile at the camera. Looks a little chaotic, but it works!
“About 1 hour” - why does my new phone sound like the wait to get a table? Is it just guessing?
Energy is so key to life that I made a 6-part podcast, getting great reviews: "such a refreshing and inspiring way to explore the future of energy. I love how it blends science, storytelling & a call to action." Listen: pod.link/1823300852 Watch: youtu.be/pLl5zUe1lBg?fe…
Astronauts hold their breath when deploying solar arrays in space - weightlessness & temperature extremes have fooled us often. The rugged simplicity of this new Atomic-6 LightWing design, using composites, looks like a winner. The fact that it also retracts is a bonus, to…
Cat’s Paw Nebula chaos of gas & dust, new stars lighting it up. Seen by @NASAWebb, 4000 light-years from here. (more info: webbtelescope.org/contents/media…)
The beautiful passing gift of a sunlit evening shower.
