Chris Hadfield, Roman Romanenko and Tom Marshburn after their return from the International Space Station. Photograph: Reuters [photo]
International Space Station commander Chris Hadfield was already
becoming an Internet sensation with his 770,000 Twitter followers and
videos of him strumming a guitar and cooking spinach in space. But now
the Canadian astronaut has topped those short performances with a
competently-sung rendition of David Bowie’s song “Space Oddity.” The
performance of the classically spacey song while actually floating in
space “wins the Internet” as some commenters have suggested. Hadfield
plays his acoustic guitar alongside shots of the station zooming over
earth in the video which the staff of the Canadian Space Agency helped
mix. Hadfield handed over the station’s command on Sunday to Russian
cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov...Continue reading...
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