Ford Hands Over ISS Command to Hadfield

The reins of the International Space Station were passed from Expedition 34 Commander Kevin Ford of NASA to Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency during a ceremony on the orbital outpost on March 13. Ford and Flight Engineers Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin arrived at the station on October 25 and will make a parachuteassisted landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan on March 15 in their Soyuz TMA06M spacecraft. Hadfield, who became the first Canadian commander of the orbital laboratory, NASA Flight E