{"id":449,"date":"2013-05-13T15:57:01","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T20:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/?p=449"},"modified":"2016-03-08T08:07:27","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T14:07:27","slug":"i-knew-chris-hadfield-before-he-was-an-internet-sensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/13\/i-knew-chris-hadfield-before-he-was-an-internet-sensation\/","title":{"rendered":"I Knew Chris Hadfield Before He was an Internet Sensation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/STS-133-launch-day-3-011.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-448\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/STS-133-launch-day-3-011-560x420.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Meeting Chris Hadfield on STS-133 launch day at Kennedy Space Center.\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/STS-133-launch-day-3-011-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/STS-133-launch-day-3-011-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/STS-133-launch-day-3-011.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield returns home today from his 5-month stay on the International Space Station.  But I knew him BEFORE he became such an internet sensation, with all his tweeting and videos and complete awesomeness during his Expedition 34\/35. Although I had interviewed him several times before this picture was taken on February 24, 2011, this is the day I actually got to meet him in person. I was attending the launch of STS-133 at Kennedy Space Center, and had just come back inside the KSC press center when, there he was. <\/p>\n<p>It was such a thrill to meet him, but all I can say about this picture is that it was a bad hair day for me, but a good mustache day for Chris.<\/p>\n<p>Fun fact: the person who took the picture was astronaut <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsc.nasa.gov\/Bios\/htmlbios\/rominger.html\">Kent Rominger<\/a>, and he was nice enough to actually take 2 pictures when he noticed my eyes were closed on the first shot. (sorry, I&#8217;m not posting that one; it&#8217;s too embarrassing.)<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s a great shot of the launch by my friend and photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awaltersphoto.com\/\">Alan Walters<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/STS-133-Alans-launch-028.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-450\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/STS-133-Alans-launch-028-560x373.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"STS-133 launch from Kennedy Space Center. Credit: Alan Walters. \" width=\"560\" height=\"373\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/STS-133-Alans-launch-028-560x373.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/STS-133-Alans-launch-028-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-justify\">Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield returns home today from his 5-month stay on the International Space Station. But I knew him BEFORE he became such an internet sensation, with all his tweeting and videos and complete awesomeness during his Expedition 34\/35. Although I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9,6],"tags":[34,26,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyatkinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}