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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. Imagine How Disappointed Richard Branson Is.... by Petersko · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Bragging rights like "First Music Video in Space" don't come around every day!

  2. Re:Great footage too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yep, it makes it seem pretty fucking stupid that we used 37 Space Shuttle missions with a 25 tonne payload capacity to build and supply this space station when it could have been built simpler with a couple of Saturn Vs.

    The lesson here is that heavy lifting capability is how you win in space, not super fancy flying trucks. It probably would have been cheaper to build an ISS in orbit and another spare orbiting the Moon with heavy lift rockets than to go the piecemeal way that we did.