Astronaut Chris Hadfield Performs Space Oddity On the ISS

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Astronaut Chris Hadfield Performs Space Oddity On the ISS

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday May 12, 2013 @03:06PM 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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Mission Accomplished by earlzdotnet · 2013-05-12 15:14 · Score: 5, Insightful

That is all.
1. Re:Mission Accomplished by DavidClarkeHR · 2013-05-12 16:02 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  He's not Bowie, but he's pretty good.
  And, you know, he's actually in space.
  
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  - Nec Impar Pluribus, or so I'm told.
2. Re:Mission Accomplished by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-12 16:31 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  He's not Bowie, but he's pretty good.
  And, you know, he's actually in space.
  And Bowie wasn't?
Lens Flare by yincrash · 2013-05-12 15:20 · Score: 5, Funny

Who knew that having that many lens flares was true to life?!
1. Re:Lens Flare by sconeu · 2013-05-12 16:19 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  JJ Abrams?
  
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  General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
Um... by daveschroeder · 2013-05-12 15:23 · Score: 5, Insightful

...he's Canadian.
And stop being so cynical. Sometimes stuff can be cool without being "viral marketing".
Re:Really? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-12 15:59 · Score: 5, Insightful

You are an idiot. The man is making space (geeky) real (taxpayers). Space is the future. Anyone with an actual personality is welcome up there. This is my new favorite astronaut. Neil Armstrong step aside. We need to get back. Did you see his other 50+ educational videos?
Imagine How Disappointed Richard Branson Is.... by Petersko · 2013-05-12 16:03 · Score: 5, Interesting

Bragging rights like "First Music Video in Space" don't come around every day!
Re:Great footage too by ldobehardcore · 2013-05-12 16:51 · 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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Hectice, baby, Mercator says hello to you
Re:Great footage too by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-12 17:15 · 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.