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On this week's Richard Crouse Show Podcast we meet Commander Chris Hadfield, the first Canadian to walk in space and served as commander of the International Space Station. \n\nNow, on earth, the astronaut and bestselling author, is turning to fiction for the first time. James Cameron, director of \u201cAvatar\u201d and \u201cTitanic,\u201d called Hadfield\u2019s new book \u201cThe Apollo Murders,\u201d \u201cNail-biting. I couldn\u2019t put it down,\u201d he said.\n\nThe new thriller is set in 1973. In this alternative history the Cold War is still burning hot and is now being projected into space with the Soviets building an orbiting spy station while looking to mine the moon for precious radioactive minerals. With Apollo 18 (the real Apollo missions ended at 17) the U.S. is out to frustrate these plans. It may be that the Soviets are one step ahead though, as they already have someone inside the Apollo program.\n\nHadfield is also the author of the memoir An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, the children's book The Darkest Dark, which was illustrated by the Fan Brothers, and the photo book You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes.\n\nCommander Chris Hadfield joins me via Zoom from Las Vegas to talk about his new book The Apollo Murders.\n\nThen, Katherine Ryan is a Canadian who moved to England in 2007 with a boyfriend who wanted to start a comedy career in the UK. His comedy career didn\u2019t take off, but hers did, and now Brits know and love her from the many panel shows she's appeared on, her wildly popular no-filter podcast Telling Everybody Everything or her Netflix comedy-drama The Duchess. \n\nShe also has a new series, Backstage with Katherine Ryan, which will showcase live stand-up sets from beloved and emerging comedians. It\u2019s slated to premiere on Amazon Prime in 2022.\n\nShe's known for being hilariously herself in a non-apologetic way, so it doesn\u2019t comes as a surprise that her latest project, a memoir that details her rise to U.K. fame and her Canadian life before that as a Hooters waiter and Ryerson student, and before that her life in Sarnia, is called The Audacity.