Chris Hadfield: ‘Worst space chore? Fixing the toilet. It’s even worse when it’s weightless’ | Space
What is the most chaos that happened to you in space?
L Aunch – go from any speed to 17,500 miles per hour in less than nine minutes. The chaos is amazing, its strength is just wild, material vibration and its strength is amazing-and all of this happens very quickly. As it takes to drink a cup of tea, go from lying on your back in Florida until you are without weight in space. It is just a wonderful human experience, chaotic, amazing, I had at all.
As an astronaut, you have to master a lot of skills; Did you know nothing in space and wished you that?
On a spacecraft, if you have an electric problem, the problem control problem, the payment problem, and the computer problem – one of the first things you lose is contacts with the Earth. So it is really important to have all the skills on board. I worked as a 21-year-old astronaut, and I was in space for only six months-which gave me 20 years so that I would not have to be surprised or in space.
For example, I was qualified as an emergency medical technique. I worked in the corpse laboratory [of Hermann hospital in Houston, near Nasa] To learn about the human body and then worked in all hospital wings. She helped a surgeon who was performing a complete abdominal surgery on a victim of an accident, then worked in emergency situations, and did all immediate sorting. I had to get all these skills only if we face a medical problem in the spacecraft. We take the preparation seriously so that we are not just tourists there.
I have written six books; Any book or an author always goes back to?
This depends on the book I write. I have written three stories and three films, and when I write the imagination of excitement, I tend to read it, because it gives your mind in the groove. I have many favorite authors of excitement – Robert Ludlum, John de MacDonald and Jonathan Keelaman … I go back and read these, study how to make you feel forced.
What about the favorite science fiction?
[Growing up] I read ASIMOV and Arthur C Clarke. I got a day with Arthur C Clark – came to Kennedy space In the middle, I spent a whole day that showed him space shuttle and launch site, and it was a dream that had become a reality because it was one of the idols of the science fiction that arose.
[In 2015] The Ray Bradbury family asked me to write an introduction to release the paper association from Mars’s records-I read it once a long time ago, but I only forgot what was a wonderful good writer. Martian Chronicles was written immediately after the Second World War, so after launching the first atomic bomb and killing many people but before the first space flight. It was really an interesting moment in time – despair and disgust from human behavior and then hope. It is a beautiful book.
How much is the possibility that there will be smart life in space?
We did not find any evidence, but we know that every star has at least one planet, and that our telescopes are so good now so much that we can already find the number of those nearby planets enough of the Earth that can support life as we know, and about 5 %. Thus, if 5 % of each planet can maintain life, we can calculate the stars in the universe and [estimate] How many planets can maintain life. The number is very huge – it is similar to Quintillion from planets. So the possibilities are overwhelming that there must be life elsewhere … [But] Recently, life has evolved on Earth-through time and coincidence-into a multi-cell life, then a complex life, then to be aware of itself and with intelligent.
My conclusion is that life will be common: we will find mud and conflict everywhere. but tasty I think life is very rare and I think we should understand that and think about the level of responsibility that we must adopt.
What is your favorite space movie?
2001: Audis Space. I find it great and interesting and the beautiful Stanley Cubic Air Conditioner to see Arthur C Clark for things. It is thinking even after about 60 years. I think Mars is a very good movie and the book of Andy Ware [it’s based on] – I love it. I think Ron Howard did a beautiful job with Apollo 13 – it’s almost a documentary. He worked hard, spent time with astronauts, photographed him on the zero G.
Tell us your favorite fact.
The most experienced astronaut in all American history is a woman called Peggy Whitson. I flew in space several times [and] It was longer in space than any other American. I led the space station twice. She has completed 10 indifferent spaces and was the main astronaut in NASA. It is a tour of Force. She is a good girlfriend. She is a great person.
Do you have a party trick?
I am a musician, I play the guitar and sing – I have the type of head who remembers the lyrics. So the party trick is that I have 500 songs that I can play at any moment and know each word and every one tendon along the way from start to finish. It is just the way my mind works. It is somewhat ridiculous, but it is really fun to be a human box and to say people, “Hey, can you play that song?” When I am on the stage in Australia, I will take a guitar and run some songs.
What is the worst routine work for space?
The toilet repair. They break all the time. Being the attached to the toilet anywhere is not fun – it’s worse when it is without weight. The problem with our toilets is that they have chemicals and very bad toxic filters to try to treat what passes so that we can convert urine and sweating into drinking water, because we recycle about 93-94 % of water on the plane.
What is the best lesson you learned from someone you worked with?
We were simulating space shuttle [with commander Kent Vernon “Rommel” Rominger] One of the crew members, Scott, was this wonderful and exciting idea. It came to tear to the cockpit and the laptop fell down to show him the solution to the problem and ROMEL’s COKE box – I turned upside down and started to empty herself in all the examination lists. Rommel turned to the right side up and said nothing. What this man has reached will be very important in the success of our mission. A little spilled cookie charcoal – you can get more examination lists.
The natural reaction was, “What do you do? Instead, Rommel was like,” Who cares? What I do not want to think of Scott the next time that has a great idea is, “Oh, I must be careful and do not pour coke.” “” It should be enthusiastic about new ideas. And so on, for me, it was a really great study of leadership.
What song do you want to run at your funeral?
Danny Boy. It is a beautiful reflection of how people usually look at death, sadness and why, and how to expect death. It is a wonderful beautiful and painful song, and deserves to know the lyrics.
