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Very popular on Twitter for his comments, the astronaut Chris Hadfield He ended his mission on the International Space Station (ISS) in style by singing a song by the famous British rock musician David Bowie in a gravity-free environment.
The video in which he appears inside the space station singing the classic “Space Oddity” and playing guitar became a hit on YouTube. Around 12 million people have already seen it.
During the almost 5 months that Hadfield was on the ISS, he regularly sent messages via Twitter offering a unique view of daily life on the base with spectacular images obtained from the ISS.
The 53-year-old astronaut, who wears a mustache and likes to talk a lot, got into the habit of communicating directly with Canadians, especially the youngest, from the start of his mission on December 21. Its popularity coincides with the debate over the need to maintain human spaceflight in the face of budget cuts.
Two of their companions, American astronauts Tom Marshburn and Chris Cassidy, who remained on the station, carried out an emergency spacewalk on Saturday to replace a pump in the ISS’s power system and stop a leak. ammonia in the American part of the station.
Hadfield, who was on board the ISS during the spacewalk of the two Americans, wrote: “We have reached […] check the ammonia leak.
The Russian Soyuz capsule with the three astronauts Marshburn, Russian Roman Romanenko and Chris Hadfield, who completed a 146-day mission to the ISS, landed safely in Kazakhstan on Tuesday May 14.
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