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Chris Hadfield

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Astronaut

The Resume

    (29, 1959- )
    Born in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada
    ‘First Canadian to walk in space’
    Order of Ontario (1996)
    Meritorious Service Cross (military, 2001 and civilian, 2013)
    Commander, Canadian Space Agency and NASA (Director of Operations, Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, 2001–2003)
    Colonel and fighter pilot in Royal Canadian Air Force (retired 2003)
    2005 Aviation Hall of Fame inductee

Why he might be annoying:

    He was raised on a corn farm.
    His first space flight, aboard STS-74, was November 1995 — more than a decade after fellow Canadian astronaut Marc Garneau.
    At the time of his announced retirement in the spring of 2013, he had logged almost 15 hours in space (Garneau had 45 times that).
    The o.canada.com website links to a Twitter parody called ‘Hadfield at Home: Meet Chris Hadfield’s boring doppelganger.’

Why he might not be annoying:

    Imagine Jack Layton in the cosmos — especially from a musical standpoint.
    Since his father was an RCAF pilot, he came by his love of the military honestly.
    His inspiration for becoming an astronaut? Watching the Apollo moon landing about a week before his 10th birthday.
    The Sarnia city airport was renamed in his honor (Sarnia Chris Hadfield, 1997).
    Forbes magazine called him ‘perhaps the most social media savvy astronaut ever to leave Earth’ — including more than a million Twitter followers (@Cmdr_Hadfield)!
    Fortunately, he went on to raise two very Web-savvy boys (and their baby sister)!

Credit: Cool It All Right?


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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 11 Votes: 36.36% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 7 Votes: 85.71% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 8 Votes: 12.50% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 8 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 20 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 33 Votes: 57.58% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 9 Votes: 55.56% Annoying