{"id":19442,"date":"2013-05-13T12:35:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T17:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=19442"},"modified":"2013-05-13T14:23:03","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T19:23:03","slug":"video-real-life-astronaut-rock-star-covers-david-bowies-space-oddity-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/entertainment\/video-real-life-astronaut-rock-star-covers-david-bowies-space-oddity-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Life Astronaut Rock Star Covers David Bowie&#8217;s &#8220;Space Oddity&#8221; In Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian-born astronaut <a title=\"Social Media Reaches New Heights As Astronaut Updates Tumblr And Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comculture\/social-media-reaches-new-heights-as-astronaut-updates-tumblr-and-twitter\/\">Chris Hadfield<\/a> hands over command of the International Space Station today, but not before taking the Blue Marble by storm with a cover of David Bowie&#8217;s &#8220;Space Oddity&#8221; performed from space. It&#8217;s a remarkably well done music video and just about the coolest thing ever. (See the original &#8220;Space Oddity&#8221; music video from Bowie&#8217;s 1969 promotional film &#8220;Love You Till Tuesday&#8221; at the end of this post!)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KaOC9danxNo\" height=\"323\" width=\"575\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Back on Earth, the rock star who wrote the song in 1969 got wind of Commander Hadfield&#8217;s video and seems pretty psyched about it, too.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>CHRIS HADFIELD SINGS SPACE ODDITY IN SPACE!\u201cHallo Spaceboy&#8230;\u201dCommander Chris Hadfield, currently on&#8230; <a title=\"http:\/\/fb.me\/24sZNW5ly\" href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/tZV2b8Qq1D\">fb.me\/24sZNW5ly<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Bowie Official (@DavidBowieReal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidBowieReal\/status\/333717231236173824\">May 12, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Astronauts have always been a cross between <a title=\"NASA\u2019s Real Space Cowboys Wrangle Asteroids\" href=\"https:\/\/techcitement.comhardware\/nasas-real-space-cowboys-wrangle-asteroids\/\">cowboys<\/a> and rock stars, and Commander Hadfield has been resetting that bar to a higher level in his brief time at the space station. We can only wonder how the next generation of astronauts will top this.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"575\" height=\"431\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D67kmFzSh_o\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian-born astronaut Chris Hadfield hands over command of the International Space Station today, but not before taking the Blue Marble by storm with a cover of David Bowie&#8217;s &#8220;Space Oddity&#8221; performed from space. It&#8217;s a remarkably well done music video and just about the coolest thing ever. (See the original &#8220;Space Oddity&#8221; music video from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[905,45,46,908,906,47],"tags":[3846,4723,3,4722,431,2746,2046,236,4089,210],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19442"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19463,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19442\/revisions\/19463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}