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Watch an astronaut in space cover one of David Bowie's most famous songs
Watch an astronaut in space cover one of David Bowie's most famous songs
Kelly DickersonJan 11, 2016, 20:32 IST
David Bowie, one of the most influential musicians of his time, died on Sunday night after an 18-month battle against cancer.
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Retired Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield tweeted out a farewell to Bowie Monday morning.
We've known for a while that Hadfield is a big Bowie fan. During one of his stays on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2013, Hadfield recorded his own cover of Bowie's song "Space Oddity." YouTube/Chris HadfieldThe lyrics in the song - "For here / Am I sitting in a tin can / Far above the world / Planet Earth is blue" - are a pretty good description of what it's like to float 250 miles above Earth on the ISS.Several of Bowie's songs are space-themed, but "Space Oddity," released in 1969, isn't related to a specific moment in space exploration. It's actually inspired by the 1968 science-fiction film "2001: A Space Odyssey," as Bowie explained in a 2003 interview with the magazine Performing Songwriter:You can watch Hadfield's cover below. The description under the video now reads "Rest in peace, Starman," a reference to another Bowie song.
