Traveling to space is risky, and former astronaut, Colonel Chris Hadfield, is one of the few to experience it.

He's a successful writer and business investor who became an internet sensation when he was the commander of the International Space Station.

There is no time on your schedule when you're an astronaut and living in space

that it says go to the window and take pictures. But whenever you get a few free minutes,

that's what you want to do. Chris Hadfield also spent time in orbit on a Russian space station.

I've been a combat fighter pilot intercepting Soviet bombers in Canadian airspace to get assigned to go help build the Russian space station Mir was poetic.

The former ISS commander believes investment by privately owned businesses is advancing exploration of space.

The technology has gotten so good now that a university can put satellites into orbit through a private launch company.

I'm Russell Padmore.

And in Business Daily Meets, Chris Hadfield explains how he's now renowned for becoming a musical star in orbit.

You could see our nation from the international space station.

You know why I want to get back soon.

Commander Chris Hasfield, former astronaut, welcome to Business Daily Meets.

I kind of wonder, at what age were you when you suddenly got interested

in space, let alone being a fighter pilot? Well, I think it was picture books and comic books that

first got me interested, you know, just Buck Rogers kind of stuff. And then reading science

fiction, Arthur C. Clark and Jules Verne and Ray Bradbury and stuff,

and then Star Trek on television. You know, I was just old enough to watch as each show came

out every week.

The mission of the enterprise is to seek out and contact alien life. It gives me emotional security.

Interestingly, when you were an astronaut on the International Space Station, you were in

communication with the actor, William Shatner, better known to many, of course, as being Captain

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