Canadian astronaut Chris Headfield spoke about the desire to talk to the Russian president Vladimir Putin, wrote the head of Roskosmos Dmitry Rogozin in his Telegram channel.
To the question of the audience, who would like to meet, Hadfield called Putin and the former American leader Barack Obama. He praised them for work. “Astronaut Chris Headfield to the question of the audience, who would like to talk to, called Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin (he perfectly copes with his work -” He Is Doing A Terrific Job “). I don’t know the first, I will inform Putin,” Putin wrote Rogozin. .
Chris Headfield is the first Canadian who has come into open space, and the only citizen of the country who visited the station “Peace”. Made three space flights: two under the program Space Shuttle with a total duration of 20 days and one in the framework of long-term expeditions of the ISS-34 and ISS-35.
In April 2021, the resident of Russia laid flowers to the monument to the Soviet pilot-cosmonaut Yury Gagarin, established at the site of its landing after the first flight to space.