AwesomeJohn, you ask, what is so cool about that? Loads of people do musical covers, don't they?
Well, yeah, but how many people do you know who have made a music cover in freakin' space?!
And if this weren't enough awesome, there is even more to this story. The reason that this post is titled A Surprise Something Awesome is because no one ever expected to see this video online again. It had been flagged and taken down due to copyright infringement before I could originally blog about it here way back when (I don't remember when exactly it first went up, sorry). This situation seemed permanent, until David Bowie himself saw the video and said, "hey, what are you guys doing flagging that video. It was awesome! Get off that guy's back and let him do awesome stuff."
Okay, maybe I'm paraphrasing a bit, but either way this video is so cool that the original creator of the song has officially endorsed it. How awesome is that?!
The answer is really awesome.
Thank you Mr. Hadfield for being a cool astronaut and making this video, thank you Mr. Bowie for being awesome and letting the video go back up, and thank you Phillip Defranco, AKA Sxephil on YouTube for including the fact that this video had been returned to YouTube in your Today In Awesome segment today (otherwise I wouldn't have known it was back!). And thank you, people of the internet, for existing, giving me a reason to seek out such great videos to share. Check the video out below, and come back later for another Something Awesome.
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