Best music video ever? YES!!!!

[Zack Baughman]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9...layer_embedded

[Jim Rosenow]

OMG!!!! Super COOL!!!! Thanks, Zack!

[Floatsflyer]

Ya, Chris Hadfield, our Canadian rock star astronaut has been all the rage for months and outdid even himself with this video. As Commander of the International Space Station for the past 5 months, he's tuned earthlings onto space exploration again.

Chris is a charasmatic guy who wanted to create a unique "everyman" connection between life on earth and his time on the ISS in order to respark interest in a space program hit hard in Canada and elsewhere by severe budget cuts. He connected with people on earth these past 5 months with his 82 viral videos from space, numerous pictures, almost 1 million Twitter followers, his ever present guitar playing/singing and his weekly live presentations to school kids across Canada. The video you posted was his encore performance and it's been plastered all over the media. He left the command of the ISS yesterday on board a Soyuz space ship landing in Kazakhstan last night. Oh Canada!!!

[Hal Bryan]

Ya, Chris Hadfield, our Canadian rock star astronaut has been all the rage for months and outdid even himself with this video. As Commander of the International Space Station for the past 5 months, he's tuned earthlings onto space exploration again.

Chris is a charasmatic guy who wanted to create a unique "everyman" connection between life on earth and his time on the ISS in order to respark interest in a space program hit hard in Canada and elsewhere by severe budget cuts. He connected with people on earth these past 5 months with his 82 viral videos from space, numerous pictures, almost 1 million Twitter followers, his ever present guitar playing/singing and his weekly live presentations to school kids across Canada. The video you posted was his encore performance and it's been plastered all over the media. He left the command of the ISS yesterday on board a Soyuz space ship landing in Kazakhstan last night. Oh Canada!!!

He's done as much for the image of and interest around manned spaceflight as just about anyone since we left the moon - absolutely magnificent work he's done, across the board. Plus, he's a warbird pilot along with his father in brother at Vintage Wings of Canada in Gatineau - fantastic! I'm sure all of us are looking forward to his safe return - he's scheduled to come back aboard a Soyuz tonight (Monday the 13th) landing in Kazakhstan at 22:30 EDT.

Looks like NASA TV will carry the departure and recovery live, starting at about 21:15 EDT:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasat..._Breaking.html

[Floatsflyer]

He's done as much for the image of and interest around manned spaceflight as just about anyone since we left the moon - absolutely magnificent work he's done, across the board. Plus, he's a warbird pilot along with his father in brother at Vintage Wings of Canada in Gatineau

Spot on Hal! Couldn't agree more. My only reservation/concern is that once all the buzz and publicity of his exploits, generated around the world, dies down, will the politicians in Canada, the US and elsewhere have the will and foresight to fund the kind of space exploration required to move the program forward. My gut says no and I'm thinking that future exploration will become a private enterprise as has been seen in the lasy few years. We'll see.