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Monday, May 13, 2013 Expedition 35 Commander Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), left, Russian Flight Engineer Roman Romanenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), center, and NASA Flight Engineer Tom Marshburn sit in chairs outside the Soyuz Capsule just minutes after they landed in a remote area outside the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on Tuesday, May 14, 2013. (NASA/Carla Cioffi) MOSCOW (AP) - A Soyuz space capsule carrying a three-man crew returning from a five-month mission to the International Space Station landed safely Tuesday on the steppes of Kazakhstan. Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, American Thomas Marshburn, and Russian Roman Romanenko ...
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield returns to Earth today after spending five months onboard the International Space Station. Throughout his time orbiting the planet, Hadfield used Twitter to share his awe-inspiring images. Here are some of our favorites. Hadfield tweeted this photo on May 13. He wrote, "Spaceflight finale: To some this may look like a sunset. But it's a new dawn. pic.twitter.com/iVgyUihqEN" ...
This blend of two images taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows a solar eruption that occurred on May 12, 2013. One image shows light in the 171-angstrom wavelength, the other in 131 angstroms. (AP Photo/NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory) LOS ANGELES (AP) - The sun has fired off a massive flare, the strongest solar eruption this year. The powerful flare occurred Sunday and erupted on the side of the sun that was not facing Earth. While the planet was not hit with radiation, space weather forecasters say the solar blast briefly disrupted high-frequency radio signals. Solar outbursts that are directed at Earth can affect communications systems and power grids and also produce ...
YouTube/AP Dear Commander Hadfield, After many months in space, you're finally heading home. So, rather than a love letter from an earthbound human, consider this a thank-you note. Thank you for making me fall in love with space again, and for reigniting some of the fascination my generation felt for space thanks to the moon landing. Thank you for bringing us music, an unexpected gift, from the stars. How fitting that you should play us out with "Space Oddity." And how right that you should make your version of the song hopeful, about going home. Thank you for all of your 140 character poems from the sky. And thank you for tweeting at me. I'm now the proud recipient of a tiny bit of ...
Further proof that Hadfield is the world's first rock-star astronaut
In this photo taken with long time exposure, Orthodox believers walk with candles during Easter midnight mass at a church in St.Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, May 5, 2013. ...
