Pop music went literal this weekend, when "Space Oddity" -- Chris Hadfield edition -- made its way from the International Space Station to Earth. The veteran astronaut, who departs from ISS on Monday, recorded a cover that's now being touted as the first music video ever recorded in space.
The original song comes off the singer's eponymous 1969 album, which is also known as "Space Oddity."
Space music has been in a sort of a renaissance lately. Jared Leto's Thirty Second to Mars sent their single, "Up in the Air," into the beyond with some help from NASA.
Bowie recently released the video for "The Next Day" and quickly drew the ire of organizations such as the Catholic League. The visuals feature the "Ziggy Stardust" singer playing parlor entertainment in a church brothel frequented by a bishop (Gary Oldman). Marion Cotillard plays a prostitute suffering from stigmata.
Hadfield handed over the role of ISS Commander to Pavel Vinogradov, a move you can watch via the video linked in Hadfield's below tweet: