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Chris Hadfield, the first Canadian commander of the International Space Station and a viral Internet sensation for his music video shot aboard the complex, announced his retirement Monday just a month after returning to Earth.
In the waning days of the Expedition 35 mission, a stirring version of David Bowie's Space Oddity was released on YouTube with Hadfield performing the song aboard the station. It has received 15.8 million views.
He lived and worked on the orbiting complex for 144 days, launching atop a Russian Soyuz rocket on Dec. 19 and docking two days later. Along with crewmates Roman Romanenko and Tom Marshburn, he landed May 13 after circling the Earth 2,336 times and traveling 61 million miles.
It was the pinacle of Hadfield's spaceflight career that began with his selection by the Canadian Space Agency in 1992 as one of four new Canadian astronauts from a field of 5,330 applicants.
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