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The commander of the International Space Station has captured the social networks for mission five months. Before returning to Earth on Monday, he performed the first song recorded Weightless. “Space Oddity” by David Bowie

His mischievous look and mustache became known many Internet space enthusiasts: Chris Hadfield, Canadian astronaut 53 years, found the ground floor Monday after five months in space. He had flown a Soyuz rocket in December to the International Space Station (ISS), before taking command on March 13.

Chris Hadfield became known to the public through social networks. Passionate about photography and music, this former pilot shared these five months on his Twitter account the images taken from the ISS. Sunrises and moon for maintenance, carried out as flight engineer for the first three months and then as Commander, everything is posted on the social network.

notably handled the Canadarm, articulating arm that can receive supply capsules, and had to manage the ammonia leak occurred Friday, tweeting information about the progress of the operation.

Wielding humor and self-deprecating, he also shared more than thirty videos explaining the daily life in a spacecraft. Cook spinach, shake a soda or prepare a sandwich despite the bread that fly are experiments filmed by Hadfield.

Followed by more than 800,000 users on Twitter, Hadfield also participates in experiments conducted by NASA on the effects of long-term space travel on the human body by blood samples or tests spine.

In the same vein, he has made a specialty ask any simple questions to answer by demonstrations on the steps necessary hygiene in orbit – how do you brush your teeth, how shaves do you – or about what happens when natural phenomena, such as crying:

On the eve of his departure from the station, Hadfield has posted a video last retracing his experiments for several months. The same day, he again played the precursor interpreting the first piece of music recorded in space Space Oddity (“Strangeness space”), David Bowie. Voice and guitar solo astronaut were mixed by a team on Earth. Monday afternoon, the video had been viewed more than 530,700 times.

Chris Hadfield is scheduled to land at 22:30 Monday night in Kazakhstan (2:30 Tuesday morning, Paris time), and set foot outside his capsule about half an hour later.