Hadfield Successfully Returns to Earth, Now to Undergo Intensive Rehab

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After tense last few seconds before departure of Canadian astronaut, Chris Hadfield, and his fellow rocket scientists have successfully hurled back to Earth, giving a great sigh of relieve to the Canadian Space Agency on Monday. Soon after the successful landing, the CSA twitter account sent a boastful tweet, saying “Touchdown . . . ” while another stated: “144 days in space, 2,336 orbits around the planet and almost 62 million miles. What a ride!”

However, now that Chris Hadfield has returned safely to Earth after spending an extensive five months on the International Space Station, it will take more than several months for the Canadian astronaut’s body to return to its pre-flight condition. Soon after Hadfield landed in Kazakhstan last night, he was quickly took on a helicopter and later placed on a plane bound for Houston, where NASA medical staff and others will poke, prod, test or otherwise help the 53-year-old regain his physical form.

Hadfield’s son and his social media manager, Evan Hadfield, talked about his father, saying that “he will do more medical testing than most people will ever do in their life, and then he has to build back up his muscle and his bone and his legs.” Furthermore, he explained that “everybody expects he’s going to come back and immediately start going crazy doing stuff, but he’s got to take some time for himself to get his body back in shape because you [lose] bone, so you need to build that back up. Without gravity, your body does not feel like wasting energy to build muscle and to build bone.”

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