News about Chris Hadfield

NASA has confirmed that the noise was the product of feedback from the speaker. However, many concerned space fans - including former astronaut Chris Hadfield - have been rattled by the issue.

Boeing's doomed Starliner craft hit the headlines once again this week, after it started making strange noises. Butch Wilmore, one of the two astronauts stuck on the International Space Station (ISS), recorded the capsule emitting an eerie ping, reminiscent of a submarine radar. NASA has now confirmed that the noise was the product of feedback from the speaker. However, many concerned space fans - including former astronaut Chris Hadfield - have been rattled by the issue. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Mr Hadfield, who was the commander of the ISS back in 2013, wrote: 'There are several noises I'd prefer not to hear inside my spaceship, including this one that Starliner is now making.'

With two US astronauts - Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams - unable to leave the ISS until February next year, MailOnline has volunteered to replicate ISS life down here on Earth, kitted out in UK Space Agency gear. The trapped space travellers were only due to be on the space station for eight days, but ongoing issues with Boeing's Starliner capsule mean they could be there for the best part of a year.

Early starts, long hours at the office, and a nightmare commute might not be the life of adventure and excitement astronauts expected when they signed up. But Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who are now trapped aboard the ISS , have little else to look forward to for the next six months. Having only planned to visit the station for eight days, Butch and Suni will now be thrown into the packed work schedule of the orbiting research station. NASA carefully schedules every minute of its astronauts' days - from the exact moment they wake up to when they can take their single hour of personal time. And with 15-hour shifts and two hours of compulsory exercise each day, the stranded astronauts won't have much time to feel sorry for themselves.

NASA does not have set rules for dealing with death on space, but academics around the world have outlined how such a tragedy could be dealt with. First of all, it's important to note that there are several ways that space can kill you. Chief among them is being exposed to the space vacuum without a pressurized jacket as shield, perhaps as a result of the garment's wearability or some unexpected failure of a spacecraft that leaves an astronaut exposed to the cosmos.

EXCLUSIVE: The 63-year-old Canadian, who is going to visit the United Kingdom for a series of talks this summer, talked exclusively to MailOnline about the Cornish space launch, British astronaut Tim Peake's retirement, and the Artemis missions to the moon later this decade. So what did Hadfield think of Cornwall's maiden launch? People want spaceflight to be straightforward, but it's actually quite difficult.' Everything comes as you're doing it for the first time,' he said. "No one is really set" for launch, but at some point you'll have to give it a try.' 'When it comes to maiden flights, the chances of success are frighteningly poor,' he said.'