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Chris was born in Sarnia, Ontario and attended high school in Milton, Ontario, near Toronto. He earned an engineering degree from the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario. He trained as a pilot in the Canadian Armed Forces and was top graduate in his Jet Training class in 1983. After flying CF-18 fighter jets for NORAD for three years, he attended the USAF Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base in California. His work then turned to research and testing as an exchange officer at Strike Test Directorate with the US Navy. In 19931993 is a common year starting on Friday and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003 Events January January 1 Czechoslovakia divides. Establishment of independent Slovakia and Czech Republic., Chris successfully competed with more than 5300 applicants to join the space program, and was assigned to NASA's Johnson Space Center. For 25 shuttle missions, Chris was "the voice of mission control," the Chief CAPCOM for NASA.

For his first shuttle mission ( STS-74STS-74 is a Space Shuttle program mission. Space Shuttle program Mission Insignia Mission Statistics Mission:STS-74 Shuttle: Atlantis Launch Pad: 39-A Launch: November 12, 1995 at 7:30:43. Landing: KSC November 20, 1995 at 12:01:27 pm EST on Runway 33.) in 19951995 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). It has a Golden number of 1, and was the first year of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995- 2005): http://www. org/culture/indigenous . Events January events Ja, Chris was Mission Specialist #1 on the AtlantisThe Shuttle Orbiter Atlantis (Designation: Orbital Vehicle 104, or OV-104) is one of five NASA space shuttles. It was the fourth shuttle built and as of 2004 is one of the three shuttles remaining in the fleet. The Atlantis was named in honor of the first, operating the CanadarmThe Remote Manipulator System RMS on the Space Shuttle, also known as the Canadarm is an electromechanical arm that maneuvers a payload from the payload bay of the space shuttle orbiter to its deployment position and then releases it. It can also grapple for NASA's second space shuttle mission to rendezvous with the Russian Space Station MirThis article is about Mir the Soviet space station. See Mir (disambiguation) for other meanings. Mir (, which can mean both world and peace in Russian) was a Soviet (and later Russian) space station. It was humanity's first permanently inhabited space sta. On his next mission ( STS-100), as Mission Specialist on the Endeavour in 2001, Chris spent 14 hours, 54 minutes outside the craft on the first spacewalk for a Canadian. On this mission, the crew used the Canadarm2 robotic arm to support assembly of the new International Space Station.

Chris Hadfield is currently NASA's Director of Operations at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia .

See also: Canadian space program.