Friday 12 August, 2022
Last Friday, Adam spoke about his love of space and his ambition to work for NASA.
“I’d love to be the first female astronaut.”
Is there higher praise than that? We don’t think so.
“Our world is a better place than we often claim it to be.”
Maybe because it’s really, really good.
Thanks, Commander Reid Wiseman
Houston, we have a problem.
Hadfield spent months getting the rights, but Bowie only gave him a year to keep the video up.
Ah sure, stick him in at full-forward there…
He’s basically one of us now.
All the best of the week’s tweets from famous people.
Hadfield with Collins and Dev, Hadfield winning the World Cup for Ireland…
Or does Ireland know how to make Commander Hadfield look good?
The Canadian astronaut watched ALL the club side’s games from space.
The Canadian astronaut isn’t a good lad; but he’ll stop a good lad from playing.
The astronaut will spend the next few days as a ‘tourist’ as part of a promotional drive aimed at reaching his million-plus Twitter followers.
They previously played together while Cmdr Hadfield was still aboard the ISS.
Everyone’s talking about Gerry Adams at Nelson Mandela’s funeral, Commander Chris Hadfield in Dublin, and the weather…
Demand for Commander Chris Hadfield’s book was so high that Eason ran out of copies, leaving some people disappointed.
Commander Chris Hadfield will be signing copies of his book An Astronaut’s Guide to Life this afternoon.
The retired astronaut returned to Reddit for the third time to answer all our pesky questions. He really loves us.
He’ll be signing copies of his new book in Dublin next month.
How long did Luca Parmitano have to wait though?
‘An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth’ is out now.
Can you imagine running a marathon with a cardboard box around your head? No. Neither can we.
No matter how grim things seem today, there are still good things ahead.
Maybe we won’t miss Chris Hadfield that much? These spectacular images were taken by his replacement Fyodor Yurchikhin during his last mission on the ISS.
And for his “contribution to Dublin”.
Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin will lead his six-month mission with flight engineers Karen Nyberg and Luca Parmitano.
Do you remember what his all-time favourite space food is? We’ve learned SO MUCH.
Breaking via The Mire wire: The Gathering at the Dáil; Cabinet clones; Alan Shatter knows what you did last summer.
“The smell is like an old friend.” Can you guess what he went for?
The astronaut bid farewell to the station yesterday with a David Bowie song – but now he’s back on earth.
