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For whatever reason, I decided: 'I'm 18, I'm a man, I'm going to grow a moustache' - and it was pathetic for years - it was awful.

~Chris Hadfield

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Nothing focuses your mind quite like flying a jet. That's one reason NASA requires that astronauts fly T-38s: it forces us to concentrate and prioritize in some of the same ways we need to in a rocket ship.

~Chris Hadfield

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When you look out the window of a spaceship, you see entire countries, vast swaths of continents. One turn of the head covers what once took thousands of years to traverse at ground level.

~Chris Hadfield

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If you don't like airline food, you'll probably have the same impression of space station food. I would not fly to space for the food.

~Chris Hadfield

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I've had a chance to see something that is way outside everybody else's frame of reference and gives a perspective that is very different from everyone else's.

~Chris Hadfield

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'Boldface' is a pilot term, a magic word to describe the procedures that could, in a crisis, save your life. We say that 'boldface is written in blood' because often it's created in response to an accident investigation. It highlights the series of steps that should have been taken to avoid a fatal crash, but weren't.

~Chris Hadfield

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Cynicism is the easiest of all reactions, right? But it's also so disappointing and self-defeating.

~Chris Hadfield

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It is spectacular. From about five minutes in, when we knew for sure that we were going to have the weather to go, the smile on my face just got bigger and bigger, and I was just beaming through the whole launch. I mean, it is just an amazing ride.

~Chris Hadfield

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Think about what happens on Earth when you throw up. You throw up and you have a bag of something horrible and then you throw it away, but if I have this bag, what am I going to do with it? This bag is going to stay with me in space for months, so we want a really good barf bag.

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I don't want to be treated like I came from another planet or something or was somehow born with some weird birthright or super power. I don't view myself that way. I am a normal guy, picking up the crap from the dog and scraping the BBQ and having a beer and fixing the shed out back.

~Chris Hadfield

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Astronaut

Born: August 29th, 1959

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