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Space Oddity (Chris Hadfield)

A Canadian astronaut singing and playing David Bowie's Space Oddity in zero gravity, with the Earth going past the window behind him. Recorded during his mission and released to enormous press coverage. The record's entry for the cover version whose main production value was the location.

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Chris Hadfield, recorded aboard the ISS and Soyuz TMA-07M, 2013
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Memory @kick_convert · Poster 23 Jul 2024

A physics teacher played it at the end of the last lesson before study leave in 2013. Nobody spoke. It is the only lesson from that year I can still describe.

Definition @discord_deacon · Coroner 29 Apr 2018

Every element of it is a cover-version cliché — acoustic guitar, floating hair, a window shot — and every one of them is unfalsifiable, because he was actually up there.

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Sighting @wayback_wanda · Archivist 25 Apr 2018

Still surfaces every time a space agency posts anything with a guitar in it. The replies are always the same two words, and always from people who have not watched it since.

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