![]() During the mission, he visited the Russian space station Mir. He first flew into space aboard STS-74 in November 1995 as a mission specialist. In 1992, he was accepted into the Canadian astronaut program by the Canadian Space Agency. Our commander comes down back to earth and knowsĪnd here is the original music video of the song from David Bowie’s promotional film, “Love You Till Tuesday”, originally released in 1969 and re-released on DVD in recent years. Though I’ve flown one hundred thousand milesĪnd before too long I know it’s time to go The planet Earth is blue and there’s nothing left to do ![]() Ground control to Major Tom (10, 9, 8, 7)Ĭommencing countdown engines on (6, 5, 4, 3)ĭetach from the station and may God’s love be with you (2, 1, release)Īnd the papers want to know whose shirts you wearīut it’s time to guide the capsule if you dare Lock your Soyuz hatch and put your helmet on ![]() However, after negotiations, the video was reinstated on YouTube on November 2, 2014, with a new two-year license agreement in place.Īccording to Nicholas Pegg, the writer of the book “The Complete David Bowie”, Hadfield’s version of Space Oddity is “Breathtakingly beautiful and extraordinarily moving” and justifies the overused term “awesome.” Space Oddity lyrics Video can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Space Oddity () “Space Oddity” by Chris Hadfield: A revised version of David Bowie’s Space Oddity, recorded by Commander Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station.ĭavid Bowie publicly expressed his admiration for Chris Hadfield’s rendition of “Space Oddity” and even tweeted his appreciation for the performance from his official Twitter account, calling it “possibly the most poignant version of the song ever created.” Copyright and legal issuesĪlthough David Bowie did not own the copyright to the song (it is the only song of Bowie’s for which he did not own the copyright), his publisher granted Chris Hadfield a one-year license to record and produce a cover of “Space Oddity.” When the license expired on May 13, 2014, the official video was taken offline, despite Bowie’s expressed wishes for Hadfield to receive a license to use the song without charge. ![]()
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