Chris Hadfield presenting lecture at LU next week

Chris Hadfield will give the next Glencore Memorial Lecture at Laurentian’s Fraser Auditorium starting at 7 p.m. Oct. 9.

The first Canadian to command the International Space Station (2013) and the first Canadian to perform a spacewalk (2001), Hadfield is renowned worldwide for his use of social media to share the wonder and excitement of space travel with millions of people.

Hadfield has been called “the most famous astronaut since Neil Armstrong.” Retired from the Canadian Space Agency in 2013 after a 21-year career as an astronaut, Hadfield is about to release an album partially recorded aboard the International Space Station during his five-month stay in 2013.

The lecture at Laurentian University will be presented through the Glencore Memorial Lecture Series, initially established as the Falconbridge Lecture Series in 1978.

The purpose of the lecture series is to bring eminent figures from academe, the professions and the arts to Sudbury. Past speakers in the series have included John Kenneth Galbraith, Benjamin Spock, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Réné Lévesque, Beverley McLachlin and Roméo Dallaire.