I would have bet a million bucks the most famous astronaut is Neil Armstrong. First man on the moon and all that stuff.
But no, the most popular astronaut comes from a country that doesn't even have a space program.
Google Neil Armstrong and you get 32 million results.
Google Chris Hadfield and there's 59 million.
Everybody know what Armstrong did.
What does Hadfield do? He is supposedly the "commander" of the International Space Station. Why is it that whenever you see him, which is pretty much constantly, he doesn't look like he's anywhere near the bridge of the Starship Enterprise?
No, he's playing his guitar, or chit-chatting with William Shatner, or joking around with some class of school kids via the internet. When does he even have time to do all that scientific astronauty stuff that we send those folks up there for?
He doesn't, obviously! Hadfield has grabbed his fifteen minutes and is running with it! And nobody can stop him. If he was down here somebody could tell him to empty out his desk and escort him off the premises, but Hadfield is homefree!
With the kind of internet stardom he's achieving I expect to see him follow this act up with a career in politics, like John Glenn.
Who, by the way, gets over 280 million google results.
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