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She packed my bag last night, pre-flight.

Zero hour, 9 a.m.

I'm Greta Johnson.

I'm Tricia Bobita.

And this is the Nerdat Podcast. I'm way too excited about this week, Greta.

This is pretty much the most exciting thing ever, Tricia.

We have for you Nerdette listeners this week, a conversation with Colonel Chris Hadfield.

Even if you're not a space nerd. I bet you've heard a little of this on YouTube control I've left forever more and I'm floating in a most peculiar way

and the stars look very different today for here in my For here am I sitting in a tin can,

all above the world.

Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing left to do.

This is actually how I was first introduced to the work of Colonel Hadfield and it was super exciting.

This is him singing, this is him playing, it's hilarious and awesome.

Chris Hadfield isn't the first person to tweet from space. That actually happened

with some NASA astronauts a few years before, but he changed the game for how the public gets to

interact with the International Space Station by interacting with the public on pretty much a daily basis via Twitter and by sending back videos and even music videos in the case of space oddity which was David Bowie approved by the way.

Also no spoilers but turns out he's really good at quick math and offers excellent homework.

Hadfield's book, An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, distills his 21 years of experience as an astronaut and

give some useful life lessons for those of us who may not get a chance to go to

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