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Astronaut Chris Hadfield Performs Space Oddity On the ISS

Posted by samzenpus on from the in-space-nobody-can-hear-you-sing dept.

An anonymous reader writes "With updated lyrics, commander of expedition 35 on the International Space Station, Chris Hadfield, sings Space Oddity on board the ISS. He's not Bowie, but he's pretty good."

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  1. Re:Great footage too by ldobehardcore · · Score: 5, Informative

    Skylab was never really meant to be a long-term satellite. It spent 2,249 and only 171 of those were spent occupied. In comparison, the ISS has been in orbit for 5288 days, 4575 of them occupied. So I'd say ISS is over twice as kickass, and over 25 times as habitable as skylab.

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