| At launch, Hadfield monitored the ascent and helped with procedures from the right-hand window seat, just behind the pilot, Jim Halsell. |
| Mr. John McKay: Madam Speaker, Mr. Hadfield is up beyond the clouds where transparency is as good as it ever gets for any of us. |
| On the morning of the launch, either Major Hadfield or one of his colleagues will fly up in a T-38 to check the weather. |
| Hadfield is currently one of nine Canadian astronauts and the first Canadian to perform a spacewalk. |
| This sequence was entered into the arm computer as an automatic manoeuvre which Hadfield could enable. |
| Mason would have been aware of this and would probably have known Hadfield. |
