News about Chris Hadfield

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.'