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The video that launched astronaut Chris Hadfield into stardom is being taken off YouTube today.
Hadfield’s cover of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” has been viewed more than 22-million times since it was posted May 12, 2013.
“We had permission from David Bowie’s people to post the video on YouTube for a year, and that year is up,” he told his fans on Reddit.
“We are working on renewing the license for it, but as there are no guarantees when it comes to videos shot in space, we thought you might want to have one last look before we take it down.”
“It has been a year since my son and I created and released the Space Oddity video.”
The singing astronaut said he was delighted he helped demonstrate to the masses that space is a place for music too.
“We have been amazed and delighted that so many people enjoyed it – and maybe saw what spaceflight can really be like.”
“It helped show that humans have left Earth, and that the Space Station is a new stage, for not just science and exploration, but for our art and music too.”
“With exploration comes insight – with perspective comes self-realization.”
“Thanks for everything. You’ve all been incredible throughout,” he added.
Agencies/Canadajournal
