![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() HADFIELD: I started making just little - what I hope were - insightful videos of, you know, how do you walk to work in Star City, Russia, or what does the simulator look like in Tsukuba, Japan? So it sort of set the stage. GROSS: How did you start doing videos in space about how to brush your teeth and make a peanut butter and honey burrito, a demo of how you sleep? So it's a little bit new to both sing and play up there, but with enough takes, eventually, you can get something that's worth listening to. So you constantly miss with you left hand. And then guitar, it's just an acoustic guitar up there, but when you move your left hand up and down the fret board, because the guitar is floating weightless, it kind of flies along with your hand. It may have actually made it easier to hit the high notes. So it changed the timbre of my voice, for sure. ![]() It's sort of like standing on your head forever, and no professional singer stands on their head forever before a performance, because it kind of fills up your tongue and your sinuses, and you sound a little bit congested. Singing, it's weird because your sinuses never drain without gravity. GROSS: So, is it hard to sing and play guitar in space? I just want to start with your "Major Tom" video, since that's gotten over 18 million views. In space, he served as the commander of the International Space Station.Ĭommander Hadfield, welcome to FRESH AIR. Hadfield is the author of the new book "An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth." A former Royal Canadian Air Force fighter and test pilot, he's been the director of operations of NASA in Star City, Russia, and the chief of International Space Station operations in Houston. He's witnessed awe-inspiring beauty, faced life-threatening dangers and held onto a spaceship orbiting Earth at 17,500 miles an hour. Hadfield has flown three space missions, conducted two spacewalks and spent a total of six months in space. GROSS: While floating weightless in outer space at the International Space Station last spring, my guest Commander Chris Hadfield recorded his version of David Bowie's "Space Oddity." It was turned into a video that has gotten over 18 million hits on YouTube. COMMANDER CHRIS HADFIELD: (Singing) Ground Control to Major Tom. ![]()
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