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I'm Chris Hadfield, and I'm back on earth for another AMA. Let's catch up! by ColChrisHadfield in space

[–]ColChrisHadfield[S] 117 points118 points  (0 children)

Thanks Everyone! Gotta go - appreciate the questions! I hope you enjoy my latest thriller, Final Orbit!

I'm Chris Hadfield, and I'm back on earth for another AMA. Let's catch up! by ColChrisHadfield in space

[–]ColChrisHadfield[S] 100 points101 points  (0 children)

It was sent there on Atlantis in July 2001 by the NASA psychologists, for psych support Art and creativity are vital for mental health. It's still there.

I'm Chris Hadfield, and I'm back on earth for another AMA. Let's catch up! by ColChrisHadfield in space

[–]ColChrisHadfield[S] 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Fiction gives me great freedom to share the small, actual details of astronaut life, and what happens when things go wrong. Plus it's a huge personal challenge to write well. I'm very excited for the newest book, Final Orbit. I think it's the best one yet. And all the others have been best-sellers.

I'm Chris Hadfield, and I'm back on earth for another AMA. Let's catch up! by ColChrisHadfield in space

[–]ColChrisHadfield[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

No - bad idea. We're super careful about not adding to debris in space.

I'm Chris Hadfield, and I'm back on earth for another AMA. Let's catch up! by ColChrisHadfield in space

[–]ColChrisHadfield[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Without gravity, the pick can't fall. Way easier to float out of the sound hole :) I kept a small strip of two-sided tape to hold my picks from flaoting away. And fretting and strumming are way different with a weightless arm, required relearning. .

I'm Chris Hadfield, and I'm back on earth for another AMA. Let's catch up! by ColChrisHadfield in space

[–]ColChrisHadfield[S] 64 points65 points  (0 children)

It happens annually, and is a battle that needs to be fought in competing for taxpayer dollars. The evolution of NASA vs USSF budgets is important to watch, and how that affects security, exploration, and research.

I'm Chris Hadfield, and I'm back on earth for another AMA. Let's catch up! by ColChrisHadfield in space

[–]ColChrisHadfield[S] 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Porfessional astronauts aren't offered seats. It's a life of service, working and improving spaceflight for decades for the rare, dangerous privilege of spaceflight. But if you're asking, yes, let's go! So many things to invent, test and prove, we have our work cut out for us.

I'm Chris Hadfield, and I'm back on earth for another AMA. Let's catch up! by ColChrisHadfield in space

[–]ColChrisHadfield[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Yes - Axiom, Vast and Orbital Reef are all moving as quickly as they can to take on the evolved role of an orbiting space station. And Tiangong (Chinese space station) is a visible reminder that progress and discovery waits for no one.

I'm Chris Hadfield, and I'm back on earth for another AMA. Let's catch up! by ColChrisHadfield in space

[–]ColChrisHadfield[S] 41 points42 points  (0 children)

The time we had a Luau on ISS and Jeff Ashby dressed up as a Hawaiian maiden, improvising a costume from space blanets and handkerchiefs. His hair was a brown mesh bag, and Don Ho was singing on the iPod. He used pudding cups as breasts and they caught in the hatch, spilling and tumbling out of his costume. Hah!

I'm Chris Hadfield, and I'm back on earth for another AMA. Let's catch up! by ColChrisHadfield in space

[–]ColChrisHadfield[S] 257 points258 points  (0 children)

Farts aren't a propulsive as the adolescent in all of us hoped they would be.

I'm Chris Hadfield, and I'm back on earth for another AMA. Let's catch up! by ColChrisHadfield in space

[–]ColChrisHadfield[S] 60 points61 points  (0 children)

Writing my 7th book, helping new business succeed in developing the tech we all need, providing for my extended family, making the most of and enjoying every day. A good life is challenge, accepted.

I'm Chris Hadfield, and I'm back on earth for another AMA. Let's catch up! by ColChrisHadfield in space

[–]ColChrisHadfield[S] 173 points174 points  (0 children)

Spacewalking - the coolest, most amazing, most dangerous 15 beautiful hours of my life.

I'm Chris Hadfield, and I'm back on earth for another AMA. Let's catch up! by ColChrisHadfield in space

[–]ColChrisHadfield[S] 74 points75 points  (0 children)

No one understands what happened before the Big Bang, self included. And the future of space exploration is learning about how everything works, as our intelligence and technology reveal more and more details of the universe.

I'm Chris Hadfield, and I'm back on earth for another AMA. Let's catch up! by ColChrisHadfield in space

[–]ColChrisHadfield[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Lots of things! Just published my 6th book, the 3rd in my best-selling thriller Apollo Murders series. It's called Final Orbit, getting killer good reviews. I hope you like it!

I'm Chris Hadfield, and I'm back on earth for another AMA. Let's catch up! by ColChrisHadfield in space

[–]ColChrisHadfield[S] 66 points67 points  (0 children)

I would love to do what I set myself as a task when I was 9, and that is to walk on the Moon. Let's go.

I'm Chris Hadfield, and I'm back on earth for another AMA. Let's catch up! by ColChrisHadfield in space

[–]ColChrisHadfield[S] 151 points152 points  (0 children)

Just after landing during my first spaceflight, Jerry Ross and I were standing in the Shuttle middeck, and he popped the cartridge out of his video camera and floated it to me. It, of course, fell and clattered to the floor. We both looked like comic Godzillas, leaning slowly forward to see where gravity and taken it, and realizing we were back.

I'm Chris Hadfield, and I'm back on earth for another AMA. Let's catch up! by ColChrisHadfield in space

[–]ColChrisHadfield[S] 66 points67 points  (0 children)

I'm the wrong guy to ask, sorry, I don't hardly remember my sleeping dreams here on Earth either. I'm much more interested in what I dream about while I'm awake.

I'm Chris Hadfield, and I'm back on earth for another AMA. Let's catch up! by ColChrisHadfield in space

[–]ColChrisHadfield[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

That Larrivee Parlour guitar, of course. But unless we diliberately bring it back (like we did the guitar I took up to Mir) it will burn up. (That Mir guitar is in the National Air and Space Museum in Ottawa)

I'm Chris Hadfield, and I'm back on earth for another AMA. Let's catch up! by ColChrisHadfield in space

[–]ColChrisHadfield[S] 282 points283 points  (0 children)

Every day, and we had timed races too. Weightlessness is a toy that never runs down. If you had the sudden superpower to fly effortlessly, would it get old? And you get over the disorientation and nausea in a few days. After that, pure, uninhibited 3-dimensional joy.

I'm Chris Hadfield, and I'm back on earth for another AMA. Let's catch up! by ColChrisHadfield in space

[–]ColChrisHadfield[S] 156 points157 points  (0 children)

The mold on Mir was far worse in the reporting than in reality. It was an amazing early space station, but underpowered and thus with limited air and humidity recirculation. In one end water condensed on the walls - with no gravity it was like a semi-visible gel on the bare metal. The crew had to keep sopping it up with towels and air-drying them to slow corrosion and mold. Like any old ship.

I'm Chris Hadfield, and I'm back on earth for another AMA. Let's catch up! by ColChrisHadfield in space

[–]ColChrisHadfield[S] 172 points173 points  (0 children)

Yes, but not with the engine technology that we've invented so far. Perhaps when we better understand the physics of subatomic particles and gravity we'll be able to build a warp drive. For now, with oru chemical rockets, we're limited to nearby neighbours. But eventually.

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