After nearly 5 months of tweeting from the international space station, Canadian astronaut, commander and musician, Chris Hadfield truly developed a rock star like following for himself and the space program. His remarkable eighty-one videos attracted 22 million views for the Canadian Space Agency whose website traffic is up 70 per cent over the past 12 months. See more on their accomplishments here. As a parting piece, Hadfield recorded this revised version of David Bowie’s Space Oddity on board the Space Station. Here is a direct link.
And with Elon Musk’s vision and perseverance in developing reusable rockets to radically reduce the cost of space travel through Spacex,(to the anger and chagrin of all the nay-sayers of course) the universe is coming that much closer.
