Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, returned to earth yesterday after almost five months in orbit, he posted this music video (NASA claim the first ever made in space) the day before his return. This is really really cool! (CBC report here)
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, returned to earth yesterday after almost five months in orbit, he posted this music video (NASA claim the first ever made in space) the day before his return. This is really really cool! (CBC report here)
Boadicea's Chariot 
Morning Soutie. The “singer” shouldn’t give up the day job. As for the video, some lovely shots of the Nevada skies. 😉
Howzit TR, When I first watched this last night the clip on youtube had about 2½ million hits, when I posted it this morning the hits were up to 3½million, unbelievably in the short time since I posted this it now has almost 5million hits.
I like it, particularly the ‘tour’ of the ISS
As for its vocal attributes, I’m no judge 😉
Anyone who can play those guitar riffs, using correctly barred chords, whilst weightless and not anchored to anything, on a guitar without a neck-strap, gets my vote. 🙂
Nice one, Soutie!
What tremendous fun. 🙂
Really enjoyed that. Thanks Soutie.
Great video. I have already seen it on Facebook and I thought it was terrific.
Actually, as regards the singing, I have heard far worse on record and , for goodness sake, this guy can fly spaceships as well!
Needless to say, I didn’t listen to the singing. But the hoohaa on the Canadian news has to be heard to be believed. The Canadian Space Agency, (total joke if ever there was one) has been spraying this over every newscast to saturation point. Rather tickled me when they admitted their total astronaut count is 3!
May I suggest only the Canadians would be daft enough these days to sit in that pile of junk in the sky for 6 months these days?
One wonders what the other residents of said junk thought about it all, six months of a guitar and I’d have put him out the door without a helmet!
I agree with FEEG (and not just because he wrote a poem for the comp!). 🙂
I f only I had the cash to spend just 5 minutes in that guys shoes. Sigh!
Another thought occurs. Even with the cheapest haulier (Ruskies) the cost of shifting just one pound of materiel into orbit is $18,000. How did Ziggy here manage to smuggle that geetah into orbit?
Hello, Furry.
It would be my idea of hell, but I see what you mean.
If the Skylon project ever gets off the ground, then you should be able get a whole festival sound stage in orbit 🙂
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon_(spacecraft)
Ahh Minty, we are talking the last front lughole here. 🙂
We can’t lose you, Ferret. Get back ear immediately!
Good question. I would think that (almost) nothing happens by chance up there, here’s the answer…
I’d heard of Chris Hadfield before, he’s well known for posting science stuff on youtube for schools and children (and me ;)) to watch and learn from.