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Dee Jefferson

Chris Hadfield: ‘Worst space chore? Fixing the toilet. It’s even worse when it’s weightless’

Chris Hadfield wearing a red polo shirt and shorts, playing guitar inside a space shuttle.
Colonel Chris Hadfield has flown two Space Shuttle missions and served as commander of the International Space Station. Photograph: Fane Australia

What’s the most chaotic thing that’s ever happened to you in space?

Launch – you go from no speed at all to 17,500 miles an hour in under nine minutes. The chaos is spectacular, the power of it is just wild, the physical vibration and force of it is mind-numbing – and it all happens so blisteringly fast. In the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, you go from lying on your back in Florida to being weightless in space. It’s just the most amazing, chaotic, spectacular, rare human experience I’ve ever had.

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