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Your last chance to see 'Space Oddity' cover from space

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Watch this beautiful cover of David Bowie's "Space Oddity" by International Space Station Commander Chris Hadfield before it's too late.

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This is Commander Hadfield to Ground Control. I'm stepping through the door. And I'm taking down my "Space Oddity" cover video today-ay-ay-ay.

Last year, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield posted a video in which he covered David Bowie's hit "Space Oddity" from aboard the International Space Station as his ISS farewell. On Tuesday, Hadfield announced via Twitter that he had the rights to the song for one year, and that the year is up. Sometime Tuesday, the video will be taken down from YouTube, so now is your last chance to watch before this beautiful video floats far above the moon, never to return.

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Video: Boise State's 'Too Cool' Close Encounter With Int'l Space Station

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Some 250 miles above the Earth floats the International Space Station, but on May 6, the space station touched down, not physically, but digitally to Boise State University, where a group of students, educators and select guests eagerly awaited a close encounter.

Set up in Boise States Student Union Building, the Space Symposium created a live-link connection with two ISS astronauts, Steve Swanson and Rick Mastracchio.

A group of students known as the Space Broncos have been planning this event since late January 2014. Students in the Space Broncos come from different colleges and disciplines across campus. John Garretson, who joined at the beginning of the 2013 fall semester, is a senior public relations and communication major who discovered the opportunity to join Space Broncos through an e-mail from his adviser.

I had to take it right on the spot, it was too cool of an opportunity to pass up, Garretson said.

Leigh Ann Dufurrena, digital and social media communications specialist, took the position of co-professor of record for the Space Broncos and headed the Space Symposium event.

The culmination of all the projects we've been working on and all of the field trips and community outreach is this event, Dufurrena said.

The idea originally came from NASA, which approached the Space Broncos about the downlink, since then the students have been working with Swanson on the project. Swanson received the title of Professor of Practice in February 2014.

Its [Professor of Practice] a new program with community and business leaders to help in creative learning across all the colleges, Dufurrena said.

The opportunity to have what is, more or less, a Skype session with the ISS hasnt been offered to many other universities.

Theres been a couple of other universities that have done these, but its a really rare opportunity for any university to get to have a downlink with the space station and especially a two-way downlink like we are doing today, Dufurrena said.

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Astronaut gives graduation speech from space

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STORRS, Conn. - University of Connecticut alumnus Rick Mastracchio took a break from orbiting the globe on the International Space Station to deliver an address to students graduating from the university's School of Engineering on Saturday.

With a large black UConn banner and UConn baseball cap floating behind him, Mastracchio hovered between two space suits and spun upside down several times during the pre-recorded address for the 400 graduates and a crowd of about 5,000 at the university.

"I could not be there with you on this big day, but being in space I was trying to figure out how to make this speech different than all the other commencement addresses that are given each year," he said.

"And then I realized - I'm in a weightless environment. So maybe, I should give the speech in a different orientation."

Mastracchio, 54, who is on an eight-month stint on the space station, then floated upside down, before spinning back to an upright position, bringing laughs and cheers from graduates and their families.

"I probably have the best job on and off the planet," he said.

Kazem Kazerounian, dean of the engineering school, who set up the speech from space, said: "Many of us, faculty and students, were inspired to become engineers because of space exploration and this was a perfect way to bring more reality to our dreams."

Mastracchio, who will return to Earth next week aboard a Russian spacecraft after completing his fourth trip into space, had a final message as he grabbed and put on the UConn baseball cap.

"Go Huskies," he said, referring to the nickname for the school's sports teams, as he spun upside down again.

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NASA Space Station Crew Discusses Life in Space with Fox Business News – Video

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Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 39 Flight Engineers Rick Mastracchio and Steve Swanson of NASA discussed life and research on the orbital laboratory with Fox Business News...

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UConn Alum, NASA Astronaut Gives Commencement Speech From International Space Station

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STORRS The commencement speaker for the University of Connecticut's School of Engineering couldn't make it to campus to give his speech in person on Saturday, but the graduates seemed to understand. After all, the International Space Station is a long way from Storrs.

As he began his video speech to approximately 400 engineering students about to receive their degrees, astronaut Rick Mastracchio speculated about how to make the address memorable.

"I thought, I'm in a weightless environment," he said. "Maybe I should give the speech in a different orientation."

The crowd of students, faculty and parents inside Gampel Pavilion laughed and applauded as Mastracchio proceeded to flip himself upside down, floating between two spacesuits aboard the space station, where the Waterbury native and UConn alumnus has been for the past six months.

"I probably have the best job, on or off the earth," Mastracchio said, after he righted himself for the camera.

He went on to explain that getting the job wasn't easy; after his own graduation from UConn in 1982, Mastracchio earned two master's degrees, worked several engineering jobs and repeatedly sent in applications to NASA's astronaut corps. After nine years of applying, Mastracchio was chosen as an astronaut candidate in 1996.

"Nine years is a long time to pursue anything, especially a job," he said.

Mastracchio said that becoming an astronaut is like accomplishing any goal: It takes "hard work and perseverance," qualities he said the graduates had already shown by making it through UConn's engineering program.

"That is not easy," he said. "I have been there."

This is Mastracchio's fourth mission to the International Space Station, which is orbiting about 260 miles above the Earth's surface. He told the graduates Saturday that at his commencement, he never could have imagined he'd be where he is today.

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