{"id":676,"date":"2010-09-02T14:56:52","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T18:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orbitalhub.com\/?p=676"},"modified":"2010-09-02T14:56:52","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T18:56:52","slug":"chris-hadfield-to-be-the-first-canadian-commander-of-the-iss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/?p=676","title":{"rendered":"Chris Hadfield to be the First Canadian Commander of the ISS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield will take command of the station during the second half of his third space mission. Hadfield will launch aboard a Soyuz rocket in December 2012, and spend six months on the station as part of the crew of Expedition 34\/35. He will return to Earth in a Soyuz capsule in June 2013.<\/p>\n

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Hadfield is the only Canadian to board the Russian Mir space station, in 1995, during his first space flight, while he served as Mission Specialist 1 on STS-74. He is also the first Canadian mission specialist and the first Canadian to operate the Canadarm in orbit.<\/p>\n

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His second space flight was onboard STS-100, where he served as Mission Specialist 1. STS-100 was the International Space Station assembly flight 6A, which delivered and installed the Canadarm-2 on the station. During this mission, Hadfield performed two spacewalks.<\/p>\n

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Chris Hadfield also served as Director of Operations for NASA at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre in Star City, Russia; as Chief of Robotics for the NASA Astronaut Office at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas; as Chief of International Space Station Operations; and as the Commander of NEEMO 14, a NASA undersea mission to test exploration concepts living in an underwater facility off the Florida coast.<\/p>\n

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The official announcement was made by the Canadian Space Agency.<\/a> Chris Hadfield\u2019s biography is also available here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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