Floating In A Tin Can: Astronaut Chris Hadfield’s Message To Earth
We Can Be Weirdos
Global
4.9 • 793 Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Chris Hadfield is the astronaut who turned the void of space into his stage. A farm kid from rural Canada who climbed his way into the stratosphere, first as a fighter pilot, then as a test pilot, and eventually as commander of the International Space Station. Hadfield has lived a life that hovers somewhere between science fiction and sheer nerve. He’s flown more than seventy types of aircraft, stared down mechanical failures mid-flight, even blacked out in the cockpit and somehow lived to tell the tale.
And then came the moment that made him a legend: drifting through the ISS with a guitar in hand, recording a zero-gravity cover of David Bowie’s Space Oddity (the first music video ever filmed in space.) It was haunting, poetic, and a little bit absurd, exactly like Hadfield himself.
His newest book, Final Orbit a high-tension space thriller and the third instalment in his Apollo Murders series has just launched into the world and is available everywhere.
Host: Dan Schreiber
Guest: Chris Hadfield
Senior Producer: Ben Tulloh
Production Support: Cassie Merritt
Head of Podcasts: Al Riddell
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| 0:36.2 | Warning. |
| 0:37.4 | The following podcast contains strong language, bizarre theories, unexplainable |
| 0:41.7 | experiences, all coming to you in five, four, three, two, one. |
| 0:50.6 | We know that the odds of the vehicle exploding and killing us are coming apart during launch. |
| 0:55.8 | We're one in 38. |
| 0:57.8 | Those are lousy odds. |
| 1:00.0 | But I'll take all the luck I can get. |
| 1:06.3 | Oh! Hey, everyone, welcome to another episode of We Can Be Weirdos. |
| 1:26.7 | My name is Dan Shriver. I am coming to you today from my home at Roughway by sea, and welcome to the show that believes that everyone, no matter how rational they may think they are, harbors a little bit of bad shit in them, and that that is no bad thing. My name is Dan Schreiber, and every episode I like to sit a guest down, hand them a piece of paper that I've devised called the Bad Shit List, |
| 1:50.8 | and try and work out what those little bits of weirdnesses that they harbor in them are, |
| 1:55.9 | so we can all join in and get goosebumps over the strange experiences they've had during their life. |
| 2:01.6 | So this week, we are sitting down with an incredibly rational person, |
| 2:06.6 | but someone who's probably had weirder experiences than 99.999% of humans who've ever lived. |
| 2:14.6 | And that's because he is one of only a couple of hundred people |
| 2:19.0 | ever in the history of our planet to have slept in space. I'm joined today by the former |
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