The first Canadian astronaut to walk in outer space has just published a book of photographs he took during his five-month stint at the International Space Station (ISS) and was fielding questions from fans at a book signing in Union Square.
The torch relay for the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games will be a national event, with stops in five Canadian cities as well as more than 100 Ontario communities.
Organizers say the torch will be carried by 3,000 people during its 41-day journey to the Games, and Canadians aged 13 and up can enter for a chance to be one of them.
The next time you lament your complicated life on earth, think about how much more tedious it would be if you were in space. Find out how to do things in space.
Every year Epoch Times takes a look back at the biggest news stories that grabbed the attention of the entire country. This year, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford made headlines around the world and a handful of senators managed to make abolishing the Senate an idea with traction. Like most years, the big news is often the most tragic, such as natural disasters or an iconic business gone awry, but at least we had a social media juggernaut of an astronaut to lighten the mood.
In his five months in space, Hadfield—who’s in spaceman rehab at the moment readjusting to a life of gravity and enduring a barrage of tests—became a social media superstar, tweeting a veritable meteor shower of pictures from his perch in the International Space Station and taking requests from fans for experiments in zero gravity.
Easter is not only celebrated on Earth. Hundreds of miles above the equator, on the International Space Station, a team of astronauts are also marking the occasion.
We celebrate memorable sounds connected with outer space as Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield takes command of the International Space Station this week.