Yesterday Chris Hadfield, a Canadian astronaut, recorded the first ever music video from space while aboard the International Space Station. The ironic choice of song (and perhaps, best fitting) was David Bowie's classic 67' tribute to the space age, "Space Oddity." It's not the best cover you've ever heard, but there's something transcendent about a tune conceived nearly fifty years ago being actualized in present day, a tune which echoed the possibilities and dreams of those who dared believe we could "get there." Apply your own meaning whatever way you see fit. Hadfield is now a living embodiment of the intersection between pop culture and science, and for that I applaud him. He is, quite literally, floating "in a tin can, far above the moon."
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