International Space Station (ISS) Commander Chris Hadfield has become one of the world's most recognizable astronauts since Neil Armstrong.
He has 850,000 twitter followers and his YouTube videos of life in space have millions of views.
He, and two other ISS residents, return to Earth on Monday night in the Soyuz capsule. Here are his biggest hits from his five months away from Earth, which — we think — went way too fast.
Our favorite Canadian astronaut first got himself on the public's radar when he did a Reddit "ask me anything" (AMA) in December. We loved his description of blast-off: "Magic. Like a gorilla was squishing you and then threw you off a cliff. Quite a ride :)."
Hadfield launched into space in the Soyuz capsule on December 19, 2012. He arrived at the space station on December 21. This was his third visit to space. He is the astronaut at the top of the stairs in this image.
He immediately started tweeting from orbit. Here's his first picture, of him floating in the weightlessness of the ISS's microgravity.
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