A music video made in space

A music video made in space

    Asmall step by an astronaut has proved to be a giant leap for music. A Canadian astronaut on the International Space Station has become a global superstar, taking video-sharing sites by storm with his personalized rendition of David Bowie’s Space Oddity. 
    Chris Hadlfield, who was in space since last December, wrapped up his five-month mission and bowed out of orbit with the song featuring him and his acoustic guitar. His video, which was posted on Sunday — one day before his departure from the orbiting lab — has garnered over 1.5 million views till Tuesday morning, the day he returned to earth. The astronaut, who posted updates on a microblogging site daily from space and has more than 895,500 followers, is trending on the site with this video. “With deference to the genius of David Bowie, here’s Space Oddity, recorded on Station. A last glimpse of the World,” Hadfield wrote online. 
    It’s believed to be the first music video made in space, according to NASA. Hadfield, a former test pilot from Ontario and an erstwhile rock ’n’ roll band member, was Canada’s first professional astronaut to live aboard the space station. The spaceman altered some of Bowie’s 1969 version, singing “Planet Earth is blue and there’s nothing left to do.” The Bowie version goes “...and there’s nothing I can do.” And instead of “Take your protein pills and put your helmet on,” it became, “Lock your Soyuz hatch and put your helmet on.” 
    Bowie, it seems, is aware of the clip. His official page says Hadfield’s Space Oddity is “possibly the most poignant version of the song ever created”.

Chris Hadlfield playing his guitar inside the space station