What’s the Point of Going Back to the Moon? – Chris Hadfield
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Chris Hadfield is a retired Royal Canadian Air Force colonel, test pilot, and CSA astronaut. As the first Canadian to perform extravehicular activity in outer space, he has flown two Space Shuttle missions and also served as commander of the International Space Station.
– LINKS
Get Chris’s book Final Orbit: https://chrishadfield.ca/books/final-orbit/
– TIMESTAMPS
0:00 – Have We Lost Interest in Space Travel?
3:56 – What Is There To Learn In Space?
12:01 – Is Space Exploration National Or Global?
18:00 – Will Civilians Need Training To Go To Space?
22:35 – The Psychological Challenges of Space Exploration
26:28 – Are Astronauts Thrill Seekers?
34:33 – Writing Fiction As An Astronaut
42:58 – How Chris Became a Novelist
50:32 – The Biggest Risk Chris Has Ever Taken
53:09 – How Chris Tackles Fear
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@santajohnsduraorduraclause4678
July 16, 2026 at 8:35 am
Hey Alex, was wondering if you ever heard of the Shroud of Turin? Was wondering if a video could be involving it.
@danielscheib119
July 16, 2026 at 8:35 am
He's smart but a bit cranky
@chubbalinx4351
July 16, 2026 at 8:35 am
Well, you could also look at it this way from a biblical view. Everything alive contains the breath of life from God, and the blood contains it. Actually I just thought of that part, but to think about how God is omnipresent, omniscient, and knowing all that, it wouldn't be hard to think that he sees everything we see, hears our thoughts, and feels everything we feel.
And so honestly would it be so far fetched to think that we are all the same person, the only difference is in where, when, why, and how we were born. In the Bible God opens the mouth of a donkey to let him speak to the man riding it. So in the tower of babel God confounds everyone's language so we're all not able to understand one another, which would mean that it's possible all animals can talk, we just can't understand them. And then later in Acts chapter 2 there's a time when everyone is able to understand what everyone was saying, there was no confusion. Even in heaven there are creatures that speak.
In the book of John chapter 15:1-10 KJV Jesus says
[1] I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. [2] Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. [3] Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. [4] Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. [5] I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. [6] If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. [7] If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. [8] Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. [9] As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. [10] If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
In verse five he says he is the vine and we are the branches, which means we're all connected and come from the same vine. And if we bair no good fruit we're cut off and cast to the fire.
Also in the last verse of John 15:27 KJV
[27] and ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.
Very interesting.
Interestingly we can all communicate with God no matter where we are, which would confirm that we're all connected.
My prayers affect the people around me, and theirs affect me also, hence why I'm still alive after doing plenty of dangerous things that put my life at risk and yet I'm still here, and I know people have been praying over me.
God took a handful of dust and breathed life into it, and became a man. There is the tree of life and a tree of knowledge. The only way to sustain our life would be to eat of the tree of life.
In Genesis 2:7 KJV it says,
[7] And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
So it wasn't until God breathed into the nostrils that man became a living soul.
Also in Psalm 146:4 KJV
[4] His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; In that very day his thoughts perish.
Oh yeah I forgot about the talking serpent.
@glfsj
July 16, 2026 at 8:35 am
This guy acted so normal and everyone in the comments seems to dislike him, I don't get it
@theabyssstaresalso
July 16, 2026 at 8:35 am
What’s the point of going back to the moon? The same reason we went there in the first place: moon sex.
@MelissaBurgett-k9l
July 16, 2026 at 8:35 am
I don't need to be wintness to man's blood, to know I will never let another man bleed -Melissa Burgett
@Being_Bohemian
July 16, 2026 at 8:35 am
Absolutely melted when he said the riskiest thing he's ever done is becoming a parent… So much respect to Chris for that answer.
@ged1234
July 16, 2026 at 8:35 am
Interview Count Bin Face!
@ModernSøren
July 16, 2026 at 8:35 am
this guy is terrible
@PAWiley
July 16, 2026 at 8:35 am
I am and have always been a proponent for space exploration, science etc, but “it’s the same reason you go back to your living room” is a terrible fucking argument.
@jonathanchristian9696
July 16, 2026 at 8:35 am
This guy loves CGI and augmented reality
@AfricaEric
July 16, 2026 at 8:35 am
Hadfield started sharply but warmed up to the interview. Relax people
@nijego
July 16, 2026 at 8:35 am
No offense, but how many books did this guy write. I count at least four different ones in the background. Huge respect for his work but I don't really see how it qualifies him as a writer or a lifecoach. The fact that all of them are prominently placed in his background makes it even worse
@xWingzTV
July 16, 2026 at 8:35 am
bro got a friggin astronaut on the show insane
@greenfacemane
July 16, 2026 at 8:35 am
great interview from an interesting and multifasceted guy. good stuff mr o connor
@Gooniesyd
July 16, 2026 at 8:36 am
wow this is a dream omg
@calebvanomen182
July 16, 2026 at 8:36 am
One of the smaller-brained guests on Alex’s channel
@aa72on
July 16, 2026 at 8:36 am
Why does Chris seem so annoyed?
@lawrencemuscat2263
July 16, 2026 at 8:36 am
He was unnecessarily defensive about the questions.
@SuperJammyful
July 16, 2026 at 8:36 am
Sorry Alex, can't watch this, but it's not you. Just cannot understand why Chris is so defensive. Give it a break chief!
@simonjuhlin6886
July 16, 2026 at 8:36 am
I think Alex caught Chris in a bad mood.
@thewindgamer2607
July 16, 2026 at 8:36 am
WHAT
@galacticfarmer4272
July 16, 2026 at 8:36 am
What an incredibly unlikeable person. Boo
@sirrock51
July 16, 2026 at 8:36 am
this guy sucks
@mattveithcreative5585
July 16, 2026 at 8:36 am
Chris, you need better audio!
@jackatlas5953
July 16, 2026 at 8:36 am
Love his comment about the risk in beeing a father
@gregwarrener4848
July 16, 2026 at 8:36 am
woke up in a pastor alex oconner mood today. thinking about how different religions and age groups respond to the trolly problem and how that question may lead to evolution of morrality. only to be flipped on its head when we add the question 'objective or subjective?"