In 1988, Hadfield was granted the Liethen-Tittle Award (top pilot graduate of the USAF Test Pilot School) and was named US Navy Test Pilot of the Year in 1991. He was inducted into Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame in 2005. Eleven years later, he was recognized as a Genius 100 Visionary [58] and contributed his vision of the future in the 3D publishing milestone '"Genius: 100 Visions of the Future."' [59] Further, the Royal Military College granted Hadfield an honorary Doctorate of Engineering in 1996 and he was presented with an honorary Doctorate of Laws from Trent University three years later. In 2013, Hadfield was presented with an Honorary Diploma from Nova Scotia Community College. [60] R. Guy C. Smith, ed. (1984). As You Were! Ex-Cadets Remember. Vol.II. Kingston, Ontario: Royal Military College of Canada. The Darkest Dark is a children's picture book co-written by Chris Hadfield and Kate Fillion and co-illustrated by Eric Fan and Terry Fan. Young Chris is afraid of the dark until he sees the Eagle land on the moon and is moved by the beauty of space.

Howell, Elizabeth (February 8, 2013). "Astronaut and Musician Perform 1st Original Duet from Space and Earth". Space.com . Retrieved October 31, 2019. First off, I am a huge fan of Chris Hadfield. I fell in love with him when I read his memoir, An Astronaut Guide to Life on Earth. He was just such a fascinating person from his humble beginnings, his dreams of being an astronaut right from when he was a child to his older adult years.

I received a copy from Penguin Random House Canada and Tundra Books in exchange for a honest review. Famous fans of the Toronto Maple Leafs". metronews.ca. Metro International. April 23, 2013. Archived from the original on December 20, 2016 . Retrieved December 6, 2016. In October 2015, Hadfield released Space Sessions: Songs From a Tin Can, an album of songs that he had recorded on the International Space Station. [44] Post-retirement Woods, Allan (February 22, 2013). "Chris Hadfield: the superstar astronaut taking social media by storm". The Guardian. London. In 2017, Hadfield hosted the BBC show Astronauts: Do You Have What It Takes? alongside Kevin Fong and Iya Whiteley, where 12 contestants compete to earn Hadfield's approval and recommendation as a candidate for future applications to become an astronaut. [51] The challenges involved replicated real tests carried out by the different Space Agencies at facilities in Europe and America, including hypoxia and centrifuge training, with contestants eliminated each week.

University of Waterloo (October 8, 2013). "Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield joins University of Waterloo". Waterloo Stories . Retrieved October 8, 2013. nurun.com (June 25, 2013). "New school named after Hadfield | Local | News". Barrie Examiner. Archived from the original on November 3, 2013 . Retrieved July 1, 2013. A young boy dreams of space but fears the dark in this engaging picture-book autobiography from Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, co-written with Kate Fillion and illustrated by the fabulously talented Fan brothers. Convinced that aliens are lurking in the dark, young Chris has trouble at bedtime, and doesn't really want to sleep in a separate room from his parents. But when he watches the Apollo 11 moon landing on TV in July of 1969, while on vacation on Stag Island, Ontario, he realizes that outer space, the very thing he finds most entrancing, is the darkest dark there is. This leads to a reassessment of what darkness is, and how he feels about it, as well as to a life-long goal of getting out into that darkness...During the day he could let his vivid imagination run rampant as he fought off aliens and traversed through space. Hadfield was commemorated on Royal Canadian Mint silver and gold coins for his spacewalk to install Canadarm2 on the International Space Station in 2001. [6] In Sarnia, the city airport was renamed to Sarnia Chris Hadfield Airport in 1997 [61] and there are two public schools named after him – one in Milton, Ontario and the other in Bradford, Ontario. [62] [63] The asteroid 14143 Hadfield is also named after him. In 2005, 820 Milton Blue Thunder Squadron was renamed 820 Chris Hadfield Squadron in honour of Hadfield, who was a cadet there from 1971 to 1978. [64] The Town of Milton also named a municipal park and street after Hadfield. [65] His name was in 2014 added to the Wall of Honour at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario, [66] and, in 2020, the newly discovered Andrena hadfieldi, a species of bee, was named in his honour. [67]

On February 9, 2021, Virgin Galactic announced that Hadfield would be joining their Space Advisory Board to help "provide advice to senior management as the company moves forward to open space for the benefit of all." [54] Hadfield will be joined by former astronaut Sandra Magnus and Chief Scientist of Cubic Corporation David A. Whelan. a b Davison, Janet (December 7, 2012). "Chris Hadfield ready for 'surreal' space station odyssey". CBC News . Retrieved December 7, 2012. LeBlanc, Steve (April 6, 2017). "STREET SMARTS: Milton's Chris Hadfield Way has 'out of this world' connection". www.insidehalton.com . Retrieved December 2, 2017. Billboard Canadian Albums: Top Albums Chart". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. October 31, 2015 . Retrieved December 6, 2016.

Hadfield has cited part of his career inspiration to have come to him as a child, when he watched the first crewed Moon landing by American spaceflight Apollo 11 on television. He attended high school in Oakville and Milton in southern Ontario, and earned his glider pilot licence as a member of the Royal Canadian Air Cadets. After enlisting in the Canadian Armed Forces, he earned an engineering degree at the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario. Hadfield learned to fly various types of aircraft in the military and eventually became a test pilot, flying several experimental planes. As part of an exchange program with the United States Navy and United States Air Force, he obtained a master's degree in aviation systems at the University of Tennessee Space Institute. ISO 24801 Recreational diving services — Requirements for the training of recreational scuba divers Elizabeth II (March 13, 2013). "Message from The Queen to Colonel Hadfield, 13 March 2013". Queen's Printer. Archived from the original on March 16, 2013.

Honorary Diplomas". NSCC. June 12, 2013. Archived from the original on November 22, 2018 . Retrieved June 14, 2013. Knapp, Alex (May 13, 2013). "Astronaut Chris Hadfield Sings David Bowie As He Departs The International Space Station". Forbes . Retrieved May 29, 2013. Chris Hadfield sings 'O Canada' at Leafs game". canada.com. Postmedia Network. January 19, 2014 . Retrieved December 6, 2016. When he watched real life astronauts walking and jumping on the moon, it gave him a new perspective to night time and darkness. He describes outer space as being ‘the darkest dark ever.’ Hadfield enlisted the help of his son Evan to manage his social media presence. They work in tandem to share information over the internet about aspects of life as an astronaut, both the scientific and the mundane. [32] [33] MusicHis collaboration with Ed Robertson of Barenaked Ladies and the Wexford Gleeks, Is Somebody Singing?—sometimes shortened I.S.S.—was aired on the CBC Radio program Q and released by CBC Music online on February8, 2013. [37] Hadfield sang Is Somebody Singing along with singers across Canada for the national Music Monday program. [38] [39] Hadfield has been credited musically on his brother Dave Hadfield's albums. He also has performed with his brother the "Canada Song", which was released on YouTube on Canada Day, 2014. [40] a b "UTSI Grad Aboard Atlantis Space Shuttle" (Press release). University of Tennessee Knoxville. November 14, 1995 . Retrieved June 27, 2013. I really enjoyed the additional material included. The short summary by Chris on how he became an astronaut as well as pictures from his childhood through to space link the story to real life, giving a greater depth to the experience. Chris Austin Hadfield OC OOnt MSC CD (born August 29, 1959) is a Canadian retired astronaut, engineer, fighter pilot, musician, and writer. The first Canadian to perform extravehicular activity in outer space, he has flown two Space Shuttle missions and also served as commander of the International Space Station (ISS). Prior to his career as an astronaut, he served in the Canadian Armed Forces for 25 years as an Air Command fighter pilot. The Darkest Dark by Chris Hadfield caught my eye because of the Fan Brothers. Their distinctive artistic style jumps out at me. But I have to say, the words, dreams, and message are what I will remember the most from this story.