However, his imminent return hasn’t slowed down the flow of his popular, enlightening and entertaining transmissions to Earth.
Today Hadfield and the Canadian Space Agency have posted up another of their informative videos, this time giving a brief tutorial on how astronauts would react to fires by using ‘quick-don masks’. Since the oxygen-supplying masks have an expiration date, they double up in function to provide the ISS with a small boost of oxygen once the best-before date has passed.
This week also saw Hadfield telling us how the ISS turns in order to point its solar panels towards the sun and keep in contact with Earth.
Hadfield also recently explained the benefits of recycling urine (and water generally) in space:
The Canadian astronaut's twitter followers continue to receive spectacular photographs from the man who is making space travel popular again (with the aid of his crew, the CSA and - of course - the assistance of Hadfield’s own social media savvy family back on Earth).
Tonight's Finale: Overhead of Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, floating above our glowing blue sphere. twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield/…
— Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) May 2, 2013
Below he dons a specialised suit to help his body re-adjust before returning to the gravity of Earth:
Astronaut G-Suit - squeezes blood out of my legs and abdomen up into my head, where I need it. Fashionable, too! twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield/…
— Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) May 3, 2013
