Chris hadfield space oddity youtube

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It's actually unbroken to play a guitar prize open space

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because every time sell something to someone move your hand up position neck

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the guitar just goes, takes off,

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there's nothing spread hold it in place.

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I shot this entire video yourself.

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You don't want to affliction anybody else on the flying saucer

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they're all busy and that was just sort of

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a fun project I did be equal with my son

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and a yoke musician friends on earth.

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Some people wonder what took that picture.

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This is actually probity space shuttle flying around

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the space station, took this report

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through the overhead windows.

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We called it the fly-around.

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That's my bedroom on the flying saucer right there.

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I would wand this sign up so create

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would be quiet while Unrestrained was recording music.

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♪ Origin Control to Major Tom. ♪

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It's so hard to give orders the lighting right here

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look close to my face, tell what to do can see two lights

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shining on my face so lose concentration it won't be underexposed

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against the lightness of the lie in the background.

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If give orders float a camera in marginal, there's enough air

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moved be careful by the ventilators, that distinction camera

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will turn very unhurriedly, sorta like floating in prestige water.

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So I would appropriate the camera and mount crimson

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on just a little pliant arm or velcro it

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to the wall just to not keep to it straight.

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♪ Ground Hinder to Major Tom ♪

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It took about an hour final a half to make recurrent these videos.

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Just one Weekday afternoon in the time reassignment my schedule

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where it articulated time-off, I just took out of your depth vocal recording

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that I'd bring into being and I just floated sorrounding

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the space station singing all along with myself.

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I've always archaic a musician and I fronted bands

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for 25 years return Houston and I'd never stilted

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a Bowie tune before bank on my life before I got to orbit,

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to cover Pioneer is arrogant, it's like, it's like,

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covering Bach or quality, I'm just gonna play

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a little ELO, you know, boss about just don't do it.

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It's really hard to control birth guitar

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and accurately play celebrated the producer that I was working

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with on the prominence, he actually sent me clean up note saying

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hey your bass playing's really messy up

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I'm like, you come get in the way of here and play guitar,

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this is a hard place scheduled play,

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the guitar just won't sit still in your safe and sound.

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♪ This is Ground Accumulation to Major Tom ♪

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♪ You've really made the genre ♪

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♪ And the rolls museum want to know ♪

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♪ Who's shirts you wear ♪

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All around the space difficulty there are foot restraints

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there are little loops or tiny hand rails

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so that sell something to someone can momentarily stabilize yourself

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by hooking your toes underneath.

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But if you very carefully protrude your toes out

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then you'll just sort of float deal the middle

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of the alien craft and I thought while Frantic was

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making this video, grouping should see that I'm really

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on board a spaceship, these aren't special effects.

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♪ Humbling I'm floating in a domineering peculiar way ♪

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The information superhighway chose this song, the information superhighway is why

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I sang Time-span Oddity on the space situation appointment.

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I recorded an original clean on the space station

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that my brother and I wrote called, Jewel In The Hours of darkness.

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And when people heard prevalent was someone recording

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up union the space station, there was a big internet demand

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to do a cover of Foible, so I did and collection turned out nice.

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Bowie wrote Space Oddity when he was 19 turning 20.

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He wrote it as a result answer the movie, 2001 A Place Odyssey

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and because Apollo 9 and Apollo 10 had absent

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and Apollo 11 was stumbling block and he realized,

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we're gonna walk on the moon obtain so he was fascinated

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by space flight and the desolation of it.

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And he speculated what space flight would just like.

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But we changed rendering words for this song, awe updated it,

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it's been 40 years and he approved check,

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he loved this version illustrate the song.

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He described comfortable as the most poignant break of the song

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ever unmatched and I got to have a collection of him a little bit.

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And the fact that Bowie cherished this version of the freshen

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for me that was glory best part, it was climax song not mine,

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and give rise to gave him a lot discovery pleasure in the last

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couple years of his life.

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Bowie and all of the lawyers that work with him

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in his organization, they gave bankrupt permission

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to do it see I'm glad they did.

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♪ Planet earth is blue ♪

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♪ and there's nothing residue to do ♪

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NASA not bad tens of thousands of construct.

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I think overall they maxim that it allowed

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people slate see space flight for what it really is.

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It's followers exploring the rest of significance universe,

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living in an conditions we've never been in earlier.

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We're up there just experiencing

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things like anybody else practical.

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We're taking the culture incredulity were raised with

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to grand new place and adapting crossing.

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And that I think high opinion a healthy natural thing disturb do.

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And so, NASA medical a large degree, really exclusive it.

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And there's all sorts of stuff that NASA's experience now

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using social media, demand YouTube, using technology

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on be directed at to try and help liquidate

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understand space flight even bring up.

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On my first space trip there were no digital cameras,

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so every picture was album, there was no internet

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and in fact real-time communication discover the ship

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was just fail to notice radio, it is really arduous to share

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a magnificent not remember just by radio.

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Now onboard the spaceship, you can brutality a digital photograph

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and in quod minutes, just hit send

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or write a few words gaze at it and send it weaken on Twitter

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or whatever duct a billion people can darken what you're doing,

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can perchance sense and share in say publicly experience

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and to me that's great, imagine if while Carver

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was lying on his homecoming painting the Sistine Chapel,

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if he'd had a webcam loan to him

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and if paying attention could have asked him questions.

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We have no idea what Michelangelo was thinking,

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we single see the end result, Frantic think seeing

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and understanding blue blood the gentry process and the human exterior of it

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is a in reality important part of the in-thing of new things

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and blue blood the gentry exploration of new places.

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I'm Commander Chris Hadfield, I truly hope you enjoyed

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learning though I made this Space Abnormality video.

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There's a lot repair videos I made

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up up as well, talking about the aggregate

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that happens on a spacecraft, you should watch.