Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has announced that he will be retiring from the Canadian Space Agency effective on July 3rd, 2013. Hadfield recently returned from a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station, and has been working in government service for the past 35 years.
To say goodbye to these good people today was much harder than I expected.@csa_asc twitter.com/csa_asc/status…
— Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) June 10, 2013