that's chris hadfield.ews on you tuchblt colonel, we are delighted, chris hadfield, to have you here. >> i'm delighted. thank you for having me here. >> here you are this 9-year-old kid saw neil armstrong and said i want to do what they do and from then on you watched what they ate and what they did. >> that night was really hot and i walked outside, looked at the moon and thought, how did they do what they did and how do i get to it. i didn't know. i was only 9 years old. i thought if i work toward it i can do that. >> it's so tough. >> the odds are terrible. >> there are only 200 people. >> who have walked in space. >> and you're one of them. how much time have you spent in space? >> half a year and outside for like what is equal to ten times around the world. it turns out to be better than what you would believe. the complexity of what's happening. the beauty. but also the fact that you're weightless. >> talk about that moment of lift-off the way you did in the book, what they felt like when you were lif

that's chris hadfield.ving me here. >> here you are this 9-year-old kid saw neil armstrong and said i want to do what they do and from then on you watched what they ate and what they did. >> that night was really hot and i walked outside, looked at the moon and thought, how did they do what they did and how do i get to it. i didn't know. i was only 9 years old. i thought if i work toward it i can do that. >> it's so tough. >> the odds are terrible. >> there are only 200 people. >> who have walked in space. >> and you're one of them. how much time have you spent in space? >> half a year and outside for like what is equal to ten times around the world. it turns out to be better than what you would believe. the complexity of what's happening. the beauty. but also the fact that you're weightless. >> talk about that moment of lift-off the way you did in the book what they felt like when you were lifted off. >> you're lying on top of your survival equipment. for the first time all the simulations are real and you

. >>> and astronaut chris hadfield joins us in the studio. >>> finally, thousands of runners are gettingnew york marathon this sunday. race organizers painted the traditional blue line the runners follow through the 26.2-mile course. they also painted a yellow line in tribute to the victims and first responders at the boston marathon. last year's marathon was canceled after the boston marathon tragedy. that's the "cbs morning news" for this thursday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a happy halloween, and we will leave you now with another look at this morning's celebrations in boston after the red sox won the world series. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com and some days it seems true. goes unpunished. but we keep on doing the things that matter& like buying new raspberry 5 hour energy. from now to the end of the year, a portion of each sale... benefits living beyond breast cancer, to empower women affected by breast cancer. new raspberry 5 hour energy. it's one good deed that will go just right. >>> your realtime captioner is mrs. linda m. macdonald. >>> good morning,

real-life astronaut colonel chris hadfield.ream to the stars and logged nearly 4,000 hours in space and bringing a whole new youtube generation along for the ride. ♪ this is major tom to ground control ♪ ♪ i've left forever more and i'm floating in a most peculiar way ♪ >> his zero gravity of "space odyssey" has 16 million hits to date. it's one of the many out of had world internet kpcommentaries that's made chris a super star. author of the new book "an astronaut's guide to life on earth," he joins us in the guest spot. thank you so much for being with us. >> thanks for opening up the guest spot. i appreciate it. glad to be here. >> one of the things that people do know you best for is the videos that you uploaded. some of them had to do with sort of like daily life in space. so what are some of the things that we wouldn't necessarily expect that are crazy or hard to deal with in space. >> so you want to brush your teeth. seems simple, right? well, we take a thing of water and you squirt. now there's a ball of water floating