Sarnia born astronaut Chris Hadfield shows off a Sarnia patch while in space. Submitted photo.Sarnia born astronaut Chris Hadfield shows off a Sarnia patch while in space. Submitted photo.
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Hadfield wishes Saint-Jacques Godspeed

Sarnia's Chris Hadfield cheered on Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques as he blasted off from Kazakhstan Monday morning aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket.

The 48-year-old from Quebec City rocketed to the International Space Station with a NASA astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut and will spend six months aboard the station carrying out a range of experiments.

Hadfield was the last Canadian astronaut aboard the space station.

His five-month mission ended in May of 2013.

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