Name: An Afternoon with Chris Hadfield, Author of Final Orbit
Start: 2025-10-25T13:30:00-04:00
Location: Great Lakes Secondary Theatre

An Afternoon with Chris Hadfield, Author of Final Orbit

Please join us for an afternoon with Chris Hadfield. Chris will be talking about the third book in his Apollo Murders Series, Final Orbit. We are excited to announce Liam Henderson as the Moderator for our event with Chris Hadfield on October 25! Liam is a NCIVS alumni and Schulich Scholarship recipient and a first-year student studying Honours Integrated Science at McMaster University. You might remember him as a contestant in 2018 on CBC’s Canada’s Smartest Person Junior, making Sarnia proud! He also was on the 2019 Mayors Honour List for representing Sarnia and showing kindness and sportsmanship to his fellow competitor. This is the first time we have done an “in conversation” with Chris Hadfield so we can’t wait to see what Liam has in store for the day.
Tickets are $45 each and include a copy of Final Orbit. Children's tickets are $5 and can be used for those 14 years old and younger. The children's ticket must be accompanied by an adult with an adult ticket.
Final Orbit will be released on October 7, 2025.
Houston, 1975. A new Apollo mission launches into orbit, on course to dock with a Russian Soyuz craft: three NASA astronauts and three cosmonauts, joining to celebrate a new dawn of Soviet-American cooperation. But as NASA Flight Controller Kaz Zemeckis listens in from Earth, a deadly accident changes everything.
Meanwhile, from a remote location in East Asia, the first Chinese spacecraft secretly launches. On board is China’s first astronaut, Fang Guojun, whose mission puts him on a collision course with the Apollo crew. As Kaz races against an enemy on the ground and for answers beyond the sky, the safety of the remaining crew hangs in the balance…
Full of intrigue and real history—including the fascinating story of Professor Tsien Hsue-shen, the “Father of Chinese Rocketry” and founder of China’s space program—Final Orbit accelerates to a thrilling conclusion that captures the beauty and terror of survival 270 miles above Earth, as could only be written by one of the most experienced astronauts alive.
You can order your tickets online at https://sarniabookkeeper.com/lists/LDjYeGHWO5tk or by calling the store at 519-337-3171, messaging us here or while in the store.