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Chris Hadfield
Canadian
Astronaut
Born:
Aug 29
,
1959
Fly
People
Space
Time
You
Your
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Valentina Tereshkova
Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.
Chris Hadfield
Success
Best
Leadership
Matter
Achieve
Glorious
Shine
Consequences
Others
Back
Focused
High
About
Laying
Crowning
Motivated
Goal
Ultimately
Stakes
Them
Then
Really
Your
Team
Standing
Groundwork
Acts
Letting
Keeping
Just taking risks for risk's sake, that doesn't do it for me. I'm willing to take risks that I think are worth it, and I've worked so hard to make sure that I survive.
Chris Hadfield
Me
Risks
Worth
Taking Risks
Think
Worth It
Willing
Risk
Take
Taking
Make
Sure
Sake
Survive
Just
Worked
Hard
A lot of people live in fear because they haven't figured out how you're going to react when faced with a certain set of circumstances. I've come to terms with this by looking deeply into whatever makes me fearful - what are the key elements that get the hairs up on the back of my neck - and then figuring out what I can do about it.
Chris Hadfield
Me
You
People
Key
Fear
Looking
Whatever
Live
Back
Circumstances
Out
Fearful
About
Faced
Hairs
Come
Terms
React
Because
Makes
How
Lot
Up
Get
Going
Then
Certain
Figured
Figuring
Elements
Deeply
Neck
Set
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
Myself
Beer
Dog
Power
Back
Birthright
Way
Out
Super
Some
Born
Somehow
Something
Guy
Having
Picking
Weird
Like
Shed
Another
Am
Came
Normal
Up
Fixing
Scraping
Want
Crap
Planet
View
Treated
When we first get to space, we feel sick. Your body is really confused. You're dizzy. Your lunch is floating around in your belly because you're floating. What you see doesn't match what you feel, and you want to throw up.
Chris Hadfield
You
Confused
Space
First
Lunch
Sick
See
Throw
Dizzy
Feel
Because
Around
Match
Up
Get
Want
Really
Body
Your
Your Body
Floating
Belly
When you're on one of the Caribbean islands, sometimes it's hard to picture how they fit in with the rest, but when you see them all joined together like a necklace from space, you see the natural geographic connectedness of them all.
Chris Hadfield
You
Together
Natural
Sometimes
Space
Rest
Picture
Caribbean
See
Joined
Like
Islands
Geographic
How
Fit
Them
Hard
Necklace
In the astronaut business - the shuttle is a very complicated vehicle; it's the most complicated flying machine ever built. And in the astronaut business, we have a saying, which is, 'There is no problem so bad that you can't make it worse.'
Chris Hadfield
Saying
You
Business
Problem
Complicated
Worse
Machine
Flying
Astronaut
Bad
No Problem
Vehicle
Most
Make
Built
Very
Which
Ever
Shuttle
What I like to do when I get to a new place is buy local music early on and listen to it while we're driving around. I think it helps explain and illuminate the culture of where you are if local music is playing.
Chris Hadfield
Buy
Music
You
Culture
Think
Local
Driving
New
Like
Around
New Place
Get
Listen
Where
Place
While
Explain
Helps
Illuminate
Early
Playing
Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence of a physician.
Chris Hadfield
Physician
Our
Extreme
Emergency
Life-Saving
Allow
Develop
Environment
Remote
Without
Provide
Role
Patients
Procedures
Us
Injured
Techniques
Presence
You could look at something a hundred times from space, but the next time you come around the world, suddenly it's very different and gorgeous-looking, just because of the change of weather or the angle of the sun.
Chris Hadfield
Time
You
Change
World
Space
Weather
Hundred
Hundred Times
Sun
Angle
Something
Could
Come
Look
Because
Around
Very
Times
Just
Different
Just Because
Next
Next Time
Suddenly
Airline food is cooked in an oven and then kept warm. Space station food is often cooked in an oven and then thermo-stabilised, irradiated or dehydrated and then stored for a year or two before you even get to it.
Chris Hadfield
Food
You
Space
Year
Before
Airline
Station
Oven
Get
Often
Stored
Space Station
Warm
Then
Cooked
Even
Kept
Two
In the Soyuz, the little Russian capsule, you can actually hear the banging of the big shield, the big heat shield on the bottom, as it slowly erodes away from the heat and pieces of it fly off like sparks across your window, and it's an interesting thing to ride through, you know.
Chris Hadfield
You
Ride
Fly
Big
Slowly
Window
Russian
Through
Bottom
Like
Know
Pieces
Shield
Hear
Off
Banging
Heat
Interesting
Little
Interesting Thing
Sparks
Across
Your
Away
Actually
Thing
Russians aren't perfect. Their politics are messed up, and they keep going through self-defeating economic cycles. But I have a lot of respect for Russia, and a lot of love for Russians.
Chris Hadfield
Love
Politics
Respect
Russia
Russians
Economic
Perfect
Through
Self-Defeating
Messed
Messed Up
Lot
Up
Going
Cycles
Keep
Keep Going
When I did my spacewalks, it was during space station construction. So the shuttle was docked to the fledgling ISS at the time. So we would always stay tethered.
Chris Hadfield
Time
Construction
Space
Station
Would
Stay
Always
Did
Space Station
Shuttle
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
Perspective
Everybody
Else
Frame
Everyone
Way
See
Something
Gives
Outside
Had
Reference
Very
Different
Chance
I've put a lot of my life into making it possible to fly in space at all.
Chris Hadfield
Life
Space
Fly
My Life
Possible
Put
Making
Lot
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
Man
Whatever
Years
Moustache
Pathetic
Going
Decided
Reason
Grow
Awful
And now for Return to Flight, I'm chief of robotics working in the astronaut office in Houston, as a Canadian.
Chris Hadfield
Astronaut
Return
Robotics
Houston
Chief
Canadian
Office
Working
Flight
Now
I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride.
Chris Hadfield
Ride
Fly
Nothing
Airplane
Had
Like
Lot
Different
Shuttle
Chance
So without that Canadian invention we were grounded. And so that was a really important and key part of the mission and Canadians should take real pride in it.
Chris Hadfield
Key
Pride
Invention
Important
Take
Part
Mission
Without
Real
Were
Canadian
Canadians
Really
Should
Grounded
Our three big emergencies are fire, loss of pressurization or contaminated atmosphere. Any of those things in a spaceship are very deadly and time critical. Everybody's trained, but I'm the commander of the ship, and it's up to me to decide.
Chris Hadfield
Time
Me
Three
Fire
Big
Everybody
Our
Those
Critical
Atmosphere
Emergencies
Contaminated
Deadly
Commander
Loss
Ship
Up
Very
Trained
Any
Decide
Spaceship
Things
I've been so lucky to have done two spacewalks. If you looked at your wristwatch, I was outside about 15 hours, which is about 10 times around the world. And, you know, there's a whole time dilation, distortion thing.
Chris Hadfield
Time
You
World
Distortion
About
Outside
Hours
Know
Looked
Around
Been
Times
Done
Which
Your
Whole
Lucky
Thing
Two
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
Food
You
Space
Fly
Airline
Station
Would
Like
Impression
Same
Space Station
In the late '60s, I was seven, eight, nine years old, and what was going on in the news at that time that really excited a seven, eight, nine year old boy was the Space Race.
Chris Hadfield
Time
News
Space
Old
Year
Late
Nine
Seven
Excited
Boy
Year-Old
Years
Going
Eight
Race
Really
I've raised three kids: my wife and I have three kids. I've observed through direct contact the adults they are now is partially the product of where they came from and what we did. With them growing up, but partially how they were wired at birth.
Chris Hadfield
Wife
Three
Birth
Kids
Direct
Direct Contact
Through
Adult
Wired
Contact
Observed
How
Came
Were
Up
Did
Where
Them
Product
Growing
Growing Up
Now
Raised
Every single thing that you learn really just gives you more comfort. It's something I counsel kids all the time: if someone is willing to teach you something for free, take them up on it. Do it. Every single time. All it does is make you more likely to be able to succeed. And it's kind of a nice way to go through life.
Chris Hadfield
Life
Time
You
Free
Single
Nice
Every
Every Single Time
Way
Kids
Kind
Willing
Able
Someone
Something
More
Gives
Through
Counsel
Take
Likely
Make
Learn
Comfort
Does
Single Thing
Single Time
Go
Up
Just
Succeed
Them
Really
Teach
Nice Way
Thing
Every Single Thing
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