Who Will Be Our Next Chris Hadfield?

Chris Hadfield spoiled the Internet. For six months, all it took was a few clicks to find the Canadian astronaut's nearly real-time photos of our planet from low-Earth orbit

Now that Hadfield's boots are back on Earth's soil, there are big shoes to fill — 240 miles above us. On Tuesday, three astronauts will launch to the ISS in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. Two of those crew members are already active on social media, and we can only hope they'll feed our space addiction.

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Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano plans to provide daily updates on his blog and social accounts. He regularly tweets in both English and Italian from @Astro_Luca. Currently, that feed is a mix of original tweets and retweets from other astronauts and well-wishers Read more...

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