(David Bowie)
Ground Control to
Major Tom
Ground Control to
Major Tom
Take your protein
pills
and put your helmet
on
Ground Control to
Major Tom
Commencing
countdown,
engines on
Check ignition
and may God's love be
with you
(spoken)
Ten, Nine, Eight,
Seven, Six, Five, Four, Three, Two, One, Liftoff
This is Ground
Control
to Major Tom
You've really made the
grade
And the papers want to
know whose shirts you wear
Now it's time to leave
the capsule
if you dare
This is Major Tom to
Ground Control
I'm stepping through
the door
And I'm floating
in a most peculiar
way
And the stars look
very different today
For here
Am I sitting in a tin
can
Far above the
world
Planet Earth is
blue
And there's nothing I
can do
Though I'm past
one hundred thousand
miles
I'm feeling very
still
And I think my
spaceship knows which way to go
Tell my wife I love
her very much
she knows
Ground Control to
Major Tom
Your circuit's
dead,
there's something
wrong
Can you hear me, Major
Tom?
Can you hear me, Major
Tom?
Can you hear me, Major
Tom?
Can you....
Here am I
floating
round my tin can
Far above the
Moon
Planet Earth is
blue
And there's nothing I
can do.
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13 May 2013 Last updated at 12:14 GMT
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22508492
Chris Hadfield:
Around Planet Earth in 1,500 tweets
Canadian
astronaut Chris Hadfield is due to return to Earth on Tuesday from a
five-month stint on board the International Space Station.
Since docking with the ISS in a Soyuz craft in December, the
53-year-old station commander has kept hundreds of thousands of
followers back on Earth informed and entertained from orbit.
He has tweeted from the space station at least 1,500 times, capturing remarkable images of many corners of the world.
His first photograph came in his first tweet from the ISS: "Space Station! Floating free,
buoyed up even more by my smile :)"
His first days were marked by a series of photos detailing life inside the space station.
But he soon branched out into striking orbital landscapes of the planet below.
We have collected just a few of Cmdr Hadfield's tweeted shots and captions here - more are available by browsing his Twitter feed @Cmdr_Hadfield.
The photographs of @Cmdr_Hadfield Continue reading the main story
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A former fighter pilot, Chris Hadfield
became a trainee astronaut in 1992 after winning selection from a field
of 5,330 applicants, according to Nasa.
He flew on board the space shuttle, docking with the Russian
space station Mir and as part of an assembly flight to the ISS in 2001.He eventually won his own slot on board the ISS in 2010, training for his current mission until lift-off in December 2012.
After gathering hundreds of thousands of Twitter followers during his months on board, he made one final hit as the time came for his departure from the ISS.
He posted a striking video to YouTube of him performing a version of David Bowie's renowned 1969 hit song Space Oddity.
The video quickly went viral, and even prompted a response from Bowie's own official account: "Hallo Spaceboy..."
Last slide from Hadfield's video §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ Expedition 35 Commander Chris Hadfield transfers his title to long-time friend and crewmate Pavel Vinogradov in this International Space Station (ISS)
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