It Is To Space That We Go With David Bowie
It Is To Space That We Go With David Bowie Enlarge this image toggle caption Tim Ireland/AP Tim Ireland/AP The singer David Bowie, one of the most creative performers in rock 'n' roll history, died of cancer at age 69 on Sunday — two days after releasing a new album. to "Space Oddity", Bowie was in love with the space race, humans going out there, aliens coming here, a voice against our ineptitude to deal with misfits, from this world or others. "Space Oddity" captures the awe and isolation of being in space, our smallness and fragility as we leave our home planet to float in a "tin can, far above the world." Astronaut Chris Hadfield created a beautiful rendition on board the International Space Station, lyrics adapted to his mission, guitar floating as the spaceship free falls in its orbit around Earth.
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