{"id":1266,"date":"2013-05-13T00:04:48","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T00:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2013-05-13T00:04:48","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T00:04:48","slug":"astronaut-david-bowie-space-oddity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/1266\/astronaut-david-bowie-space-oddity\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronaut Covers David Bowie in Space &#8211; Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KaOC9danxNo?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0\" height=\"303\" width=\"539\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1269\" alt=\"Astronaut David Bowie Space Oddity\" src=\"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/astronaut-david-bowie-space-oddity.jpg\" width=\"539\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/astronaut-david-bowie-space-oddity.jpg 539w, https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/astronaut-david-bowie-space-oddity-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>David Bowie&#8217;s &#8220;Space Oddity&#8221; just hit the stratosphere and beyond thanks to astronaut\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AstronautChrisHadfield\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Hadfield<\/a>,\u00a0Commander of Expedition 35 on the\u00a0International Space Station. Hadfield is set to return to Earth on Monday, but before he leaves the &#8220;tin can&#8221; (as Bowie put it in 1969&#8217;s <em>Space Oddity<\/em>), he shared this epic farewell: the most\u00a0apropos cover of David Bowie&#8217;s title track from that album ever, complete with a music video featuring stunning footage from outer space.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With deference to the genius of David Bowie, here&#8217;s Space Oddity, recorded on Station,&#8221; he said on Twitter. &#8220;A last glimpse of the World.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The visuals alone are amazing, but credit is also due to his fine performance, which would impress with or without gravity. With no further ado, watch it above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Bowie&#8217;s &#8220;Space Oddity&#8221; just hit the stratosphere and beyond thanks to astronaut\u00a0Chris Hadfield,\u00a0Commander of Expedition 35 on the\u00a0International Space Station. Hadfield is set to return to Earth on Monday, but before he leaves the &#8220;tin can&#8221; (as Bowie put it in 1969&#8217;s Space Oddity), he shared this epic farewell: the most\u00a0apropos cover of David &#8230; <a title=\"Astronaut Covers David Bowie in Space &#8211; Video\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/1266\/astronaut-david-bowie-space-oddity\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1276,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions\/1276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}