In the meantime on the ISS (and back on Earth)

Chris Hadfield arrived home from the International Space Station with his two colleagues, Tom Marshburn and Roman Romanenko, in mid-May. Two weeks later a new team took off to the station, and so Expedition 36 (the 36th long-duration mission aboard the ISS) is now on with full crew.

 --   credit: NASA

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!

Your Space Adventure 2: You stay in space for half a year!

So you want to go to space?
Let's say you are invited to the International Space Station. We take two scenarios from here:

1. You arrive to the space station, but your colleagues don't like you. They send you to an EVA (Extra-Vehicular Activity a.k.a. spacewalk) without a space suit. Oops. (An impossible scenario, but for now let's just assume this can happen.)
2. Your colleagues love you and make you stay for a half a year. (Much more likely.)

How does your body take all this?  Here it is for Scenario 2:

In the meantime on the ISS - Ammonia leak fixed

News reports have been all over the media about the liquid ammonia leak at the International Space Station. On May 9, astronauts aboard the ISS noticed small white "snowflakes", the frozen ammonia coolant, floating around outside the station.

Leaking ammonia coolant   --   via Discovery News

Your Space Adventure 1: Out in Space without a Space Suit

So you want to go to space?
Let's say you are invited to the International Space Station. We take two scenarios from here:

1. You arrive to the space station, but your colleagues don't like you. They send you to an EVA (Extra-Vehicular Activity a.k.a. spacewalk) without a space suit. Oops. (An impossible scenario, but for now let's just assume this can happen.)
2. Your colleagues love you and make you stay for a half a year. (Much more likely.)

How does your body take all this?  Here it is for Scenario 1:

In the meantime on the ISS - Space Onion

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