ISS Update: Interview with Expedition 34 Flight Engineer/Expedition 35 Commander Chris Hadfield

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Channel: NASA Johnson · 2012 · Science & Technology

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NASA Public Affairs Officer Kyle Herring conducts a telephone interview Dec. 4, 2012, with Canadian Space Agency astronaut and Expedition 34 Flight Engineer Chris Hadfield.

A new Expedition 34 trio is scheduled to launch Dec. 19 from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, and join their orbiting crewmates on the International Space Station. Joining Hadfield for their launch aboard the Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft are Flight Engineers Roman Romanenko and Tom Marshburn.

Hadfield will also become Expedition 35 commander when Expedition 34 crew members Kevin Ford, Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin undock in their Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft in March. Hadfield will be Canada's first commander of the space station.

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