Tuesday, May 14, 2013

First Music Video From Space? 'Space Oddity' Chris Hadfield

Chris Hadfield, Roman Romanenko and Tom Marshburn after their return from the International Space Station. Photograph: Reuters  [photo]    Chris Hadfield, Roman Romanenko and Tom Marshburn after their return from the space station
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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