_Commander Chris Hadfield

In September 2010, Chris Hadfield was assigned to Expedition 34/35. In 2012 he will launch aboard the Russian Soyuz, enroute to becoming the second Canadian to take part in a long-duration spaceflight aboard the ISS. In March 2013 he will be the first Canadian to command a spaceship when he becomes Commander of the International Space Station during the second portion of his six-month stay in space.

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_Space Walk with Astronaut Commander Chris Hadfield

_AN INCREDIBLE JOURNEY TO SPACE Astronaut Chris Hadfield, recalls his incredible “Surreal Experience” to Space. Chris, who is the first Canadian to walk in space, says he believes more people would become “better stewards of the earth” if they had a chance to see our fragile planet from space. From Earth to you a Big Thank You for sharing your incredible Journey with the World.

What an Incredible Journey, Around The World In 90 Minutes

_What is it like to circle the Earth? Every 90 minutes, astronauts aboard the International Space Station experience just that. Recently, crew members took a series of light-sensitive videos looking down at night that have been digitally fused to produce the above time-lapse video.

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Many wonders of the land and sky are visible in the eighteen sequences, including red aurora above green aurora, lights from many major cities, and stars in the background. Looming at the top of the frame is usually part of the space station itself, sometimes seen re-orienting solar panels. Please help create a useful companion guide for this moving video by identifyinglandmarks, cities, countries, weather phenomena, and even background constellations that appear.
Video Credit: Expedition 28 & 29 Crews, ISAL, NASA’s JSC;
Compilation and Editing: Michael König; Music: Do Dekor (Jan Jelinek), faitiche

This is Our Galaxy...Your Planet...Your Home

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC - FREE GALAXY MAP  (CLICK ON THE MAP TO DOWNLOAD)

Home galaxy of Earth, the Milky Way is a spiral-shaped system of a few hundred billion stars. Bright regions of recently formed stars highlight its arms, while older stars explode or expel their outer layers as beautiful planetary nebulae, then fade away and die. A thick swarm of orange and red stars marks the galactic bulge, encapsulating the star-packed galactic center. At its core may lie a black hole, a region so dense that not even light can escape its gravitational pull. All objects in the Milky Way orbit the galactic center, much like planets in Earth's solar system revolve around the sun. But the scale is staggering: Light from a star at one edge of the galaxy takes about 100,000 years to reach the opposite side.