Colonel Chris Hadfield, the first Canadian astronaut to live aboard the International Space Station, was born on August 29, 1959, in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. Raised on a farm, Hadfield developed an early taste for adventure, and by his teens, he was already an accomplished skier. But flying was Hadfield's true passion.

Chris Hadfield (born as Chris Austin Hadfield in Sarnia, Ontario) is a famous Astronaut from Canada, he is 57 years old and still alive, born August 29, 1959. Hadfield's second space flight began on 19 April 2001 with the Space Shuttle Endeavour on mission STS-100. During the flight to the International Space Station (ISS) Canadarm2 robotic arm of the Canadian and was carried for the first time, the logistics module Raffaello. In two outboard mounted Hadfield activities together with Scott Parazynski's robotic arm on the ISS. Hadfield was then from 2001 to 2003, the Director of Operations for NASA at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia Swjosdny Gorodok. 2003 Hadfield retired from the Canadian Air Force after 25 years of military service and civilian astronaut is now the CSA. From 2003 to 2006 he was director of the Robotics Department at the Johnson Space Center in Houston and is now director of ISS operations.