Cape Canaveral, Florida: A music video shot aboard the International Space Station went viral on Monday, turning an astronaut into an overnight music sensation with his zero-gravity version of David Bowie's hit "Space Oddity." As the first Canadian to command the space station, a $100 million project of 15 nations, Chris Hadfield had already earned himself a place in the history books.
But as he prepared to return home on Monday after more than five months in orbit, Hadfield released a poignant "cyberspace" rendition of Bowie's song, which was first released in 1969 just ahead of the Apollo 11 moon landing. The video, with its familiar refrain "Ground Control to Major Tom," had more than 1.5 million hits on YouTube early Monday afternoon and was being touted as the first music video ever filmed in space.
Complete with re-worked lyrics and high quality footage that Hadfield and his crew mates shot aboard the orbital outpost, the video shows the astronaut singing about the impending end of his space mission while floating in mid-air above the blue Earth. "Though I've flown 100,000 miles, I'm feeling very still and before too long I know it's time to go," the astronaut croons.
Hadfield, NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn and Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, actually have racked up many millions of miles (kilometres) as they circled about 250 miles (402 km) above the planet over the past 5-1/2 months. Hadfield's singing and acoustic guitar playing is accompanied by stunning video of the
11:58 AM, May 14, 2013
A music video shot aboard the International Space Station by a Canadian astronaut gets over 1.5 million hits on YouTube. ...
11:12 AM, May 14, 2013
This image provided by NASA shows astronaut Chris Hadfield recording the first music video from space Sunday May 12, 2013. The song was his cover version of David Bowie's Space Oddity. Hadfield and astronaut Thomas Marshburn are scheduled to return to earth. ...
11:22 AM, May 13, 2013
Melbourne: US astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the Moon, has laid out an ambitious plan of setting up a human colony on Mars within the next two decades. The 83-year-old astronaut, who joined the late Neil Armstrong for a globally watched and remembered leap on the Moon in 1969 has revealed his plans to have a human colony on the Red Planet by the mid 2030s...
03:30 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams, who is visiting India after returning to India after spending 127 days in space, interacted and shared her experiences with students at National Science Centre in New Delhi on Monday. Sunita Williams's itinerary includes visits to Delhi, Mumbai and Gujarat. ...
05:24 PM, Apr 01, 2013
NASA astronaut Sunita Williams is in India and she told students in Delhi she hasn't seen any aliens and said, interestingly, borders mean nothing from space. She spoke to CNN-IBN's Senior Editor Suhasini Haider about her experiences in the space. ...
02:37 PM, Apr 01, 2013
New Delhi: Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams, who holds the record for the longest space flight by a woman astronaut, has a date with India. She will start her India trip on April 1 from the national capital. She will be speaking with students at the National Science Centre in the national capital. Following that she will meet the President Pranab Mukherjee before leaving for Kolkata. "The centre will host Sunita...
07:45 AM, Apr 01, 2013
New Delhi: Indian American astronaut Sunita Williams, who holds the world record for the longest spaceflight by a female astronaut, will start her India trip on April 1 from the national capital. Williams will visit the National Science Centre (NSC) in the national capital on April 1 and interact with students and teachers. "The centre will host Sunita L Williams (Captain, US Navy) and NASA astronaut on April 1. She...
05:00 PM, Mar 31, 2013
A Canadian astronaut has teamed up with Barenaked Ladies lead singer Ed Robertson for the first ever original track to be written and recorded in space, 402 km above the Earth aboard the International Space Station. ...
05:11 PM, Feb 10, 2013
Houston: As she packs up her small luggage and special memorabilia for a return journey back to Earth, NASA astronaut Sunita Williams is reluctant to bid adieu to her eventful second sojourn to space which she describes as a "really cool" place which nobody would like to leave. With hours left before she is scheduled to hit her home planet, back on Earth her friends and family, especially her parents...
04:43 AM, Nov 19, 2012
Houston: Record-setting Indian-American NASA astronaut Sunita Williams along with two other cosmonauts will return to Earth on Sunday, after four months in orbit. Williams ceremonially handed over the command of the International Space Station to fellow NASA astronaut Kevin Ford on the eve of her departure from the complex on Saturday. Williams along with Aki Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Russian Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko will return...
07:42 AM, Nov 18, 2012
Houston: Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams, currently in space floating around in zero-gravity, voted for US presidential polls by absentee ballot. Sunita, along with flight engineer Kevin Ford, exercised her franchise in July while stationed in Russia even before heading up to the station aboard Soyuz ships launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome. The other four members of the station's current Expedition 33 crew are all non-Americans - three Russian cosmonauts and...
07:47 AM, Nov 07, 2012
Houston: Indian-American Sunita Williams along with a fellow astronaut on Thursday ventured out of the International Space Station, adding to her record-setting space walking sojourns, to find an ammonia leak in the vital radiator system. Expedition Commander Williams and Flight Engineer Aki Hoshide switched their spacesuits to battery power at 1229 GMT (1759 IST), signalling the start of today's planned 6.5-hour excursion outside the International Space Station, a NASA statement...
01:54 AM, Nov 02, 2012
Houston: Indian-American NASA astronaut Sunita Williams and her Japanese colleague successfully replaced a vital power unit on the International Space Station using tools made out of a toothbrush. The decision to use a simple toothbrush to clean a bolt that gave Williams and Akihiko Hoshide so much trouble during a marathon 8-hour spacewalk last week, was made during a brainstorming session between the astronauts and NASA engineers on the ground....
06:26 PM, Sep 06, 2012
Houston: Indian-American NASA astronaut Sunita Williams and her Japanese counterpart Akihiko Hoshide have successfully restored power to the International Space Station on their second attempt. With this spacewalk, Williams surpassed Peggy Whitson's record during Wednesday's excursion for total cumulative spacewalk time by a female astronaut. Whitson worked outside for 39 hours and 46 minutes over the course of six spacewalks. Williams has conducted six spacewalks for a total of 44...
07:46 AM, Sep 06, 2012
London: "I apologise for the inconvenience", US astronaut Neil Armstrong told Indira Gandhi when informed that the Indian Prime Minister had kept awake till 4:30 am to watch him land on the moon on July 20, 1969. This anecdote about the celebrated astronaut, who died two days ago, was recalled here by former External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh who was present when Armstrong and his fellow astronaut Edwin 'Buzz'...
05:36 PM, Aug 28, 2012
Neil Armstrong was born on his grandparents' farm in Ohio in 1930, when air travel was still in its infancy and space travel was the stuff of science fiction. ...
07:59 AM, Aug 26, 2012
Neil Armstrong's family said that he died of complications after undergoing a heart-bypass surgery earlier this month. ...
07:44 AM, Aug 26, 2012
Cincinnati: Neil Armstrong was a soft-spoken engineer who became a global hero when as a steely-nerved pilot he made "one giant leap for mankind" with a small step onto the moon. The modest man, who had people on Earth entranced and awed from almost a quarter-million miles away, but credited others for the feat, died on Saturday. He was 82. Armstrong died following complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures, his family...
01:29 AM, Aug 26, 2012
