Canada’s Chris Hadfield takes off for 5-month
space station visit
-The Canadian Press | December 19, 2012
Chris Hadflield, 53-year-old space veteran,
is embarking on his third space trip to become the first Canadian to command
the International Space Station. His visit is set at 5-months at the giant
orbiting space lab to which he is travelling on board a Russian Soyuz capsule.
NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn and Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko are
accompanying Hadfield to the station where “he will be involved with more than
130 experiments including Micro-flow, a Canadian blood-sampling experiment
which he compared to hospital in a box.” The first Canadian to shuttle into
outr space, Marc Garneau, wished Hadfield well: "That's an incredible accomplishment. He's an incredible guy."Garneau
expresses a love and space and misses it but he’s got a lot on his plate down
on earth where he’s running to become the federal party’s next leader. Hadfield
previously went to space in November 1995 to visit the Russian Space Station
Mir, and in April 2001 to visit the International Space Station, and make two
preform two space walks. The launch pad, Gagarin’s Start, named after “Soviet
astronaut Yuri Gagarin who blasted off in 1961 for the first human orbital
space flight”, was where the team launched from this morning, marking a return
to use of the pad.
Chris Hadfield seems to be very
accomplished in space. It’s exciting when a first of something is carried out
and he will always be marked the first Canadian to command the International
Space Station. I imagine he is overjoyed to journey to space (again) –I would
be. It sounds like an amazing experience up there and to achieve the title of
“first” on his third mission must feel amazing. He must hold a lot of
knowledge, as he will be conducting numerous experiments as well as command the
station.
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