A special message has been sent by the space commander who took picture of the Isle of Wight from the International Space Station. Earlier this year, the Canadian, Chris Hadfield, tweeted the iconic image. On Sunday, a message was sent to Islanders during a book signing in Piccadilly, London.

In a live interview with Chris Donoghue in Dublin's Science Gallery, he told about how it feels to perform a spacewalk, re-entering the atmosphere at quick speed, carrying out experiments in zero gravity. He also told that whether he believed in life on other planets or not.

He says that each and every star has planets and the numbers are so vast that there are 80 billion earth-like planets that we are familiar with.

According to him, "I think that there has got be life on other places in the universe, but I don't think that they re sneaking around abducting farmers and putting circles in crops".

Chris wanted to go into space from the time when he was just nine years old. He told that he completely supported Richard Branson's efforts to get the foremost commercial intergalactic tourists in space.

For all time, space flight has been commercial. The Lunar Lander was built by Grummen for profit. The space shuttle was built by Rockwell for profit. Even the space station is preserved for Boeing for profit.