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Commander of the international space station. he joins me now from toronto. great to you on the show. i do want to get your take on this journey, this mission. what are your thoughts this hour? >> it was such a delightful relief to see them safely come back down through the atmosphere, to see four parachutes open and to have that beautiful close-up view of them splashing down into the atlantic. we haven't landed a spaceship in the atlantic since apollo 9 when rusty schweiker was flying. really nice to see, and the crew looking so healthy. it's a really lovely, perfect finish to a real demonstr...

That the dream of space travel is finally within reach of ordinary people. chris hatfield is a retired canadian astronaut and former commander of the international space station. he joins me now from toronto. great to have you on the show. i do want to get your take on this journey, this mission. what are your thoughts this hour? >> it was such a delightful relief to see them safely come back down through the atmosphere, to see four parachutes open, and to have that beautiful close-up view of them splashing down into the atlantic. we haven't landed a spaceship into the atlantic since "apollo 9...

A look these are some of the heroes of the a problem that is that's actually the apollo 9 missions and if you if you look at though those suits they look quite similar and the this is was not what nasa said today that today's suits that are still in use basically only slight redesigns of these 40 year olds would these look like they would be you'd be able to manage in them there they don't know what they would be cumbersome there but they are on a as they are they a way like $200.00 pounds but on the on the moon they only wear 16 of that so they have a quite manageable there but you see they'r...

Yeah that's that's an mclean that we see we see there in the in the background and she was supposed to do in march this year she was to participate in a bit of a historic moment the 1st all female space walk out of the us as the international space station and that was council at the last minute because there was only one medium sized suit available and both women would have needed a medium sized suit and only one was available so that was council. because that ok making a little moment of history would have been nice but mission safety goes i seem to have more large yet large large and extra ...