Best of Chris Hadfield

Chris Hadfield, Canadian astronaut is back home by now from the International Space Station. He arrived to the ISS in December, and in mid-March he became the commander of Expedition 35.

Safely home - back on Earth, happily readapting to the heavy pull of gravity. Wonderful to smell and feel Spring.
— Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) May 14, 2013

-- image by Sean Rhodes

He has been tweeting from space, sending back incredible pictures, and has recorded fantastic videos showing us how life is on the ISS, bringing space a little closer to all of us.

In one of the last videos he recorded aboard the station he said "this experience is not individual, it is shared, it is mutual, and it is worldwide". He definitely made it just exactly that.

Here are my favorite images by and of Chris Hadfiled aboard the ISS - not in any particular order, plus the first music video from space!

Black Sea swirls -- via twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield

Australian Outback -- via twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield

St. Patrick's Day -- via twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield

Clouds, shadow, sand -- via twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield

Moonrise -- via twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield

Floating bubble -- credit: REUTERS/NASA

Taranaki Volcano, New Zealand -- via twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield

Earth -- via twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield

Astronaut Tom Marshburn is twisting his body in Zero-G,
like a cat in midair before landing on its feet.
Hadfield in the background.
-- animation by Fernando Alfonso III