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The Daily Matter | First music video recorded in space? Brought to you by our favourite tweeting astronaut

Commander Chris Hadfield leaves the International Space Station, with a fitting tribute

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Christy Choi

Published: 12:26pm, 14 May 2013Updated: 1:01pm, 14 May 2013

Our favourite tweeting astronaut came down to earth on Monday, leaving the International Space Station where he's been living for the past five months with a fitting tribute: a rendition of David Bowie's Space Oddity.

The clip, which could be the first music video filmed in space, was released by the astronaut on Sunday, days before the Soyuz space capsule carrying Colonel Chris Hadfield and his two companions, Nasa astronaut Tom Marshburn and Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, touched down in Kazakstan.

The trio have been working onboard the space station for 144 days. Their experiments could "lead to improvements in the shelf-life of household products, food and medicine", said Nasa, the US space agency.

Their departure marks the end of the 35th expedition to the space station, which for Hadfield, had another mission besides science -- to show the world the day-to-day life of an astronaut.

"Dad wanted a way to help people connect with the real side of what an astronaut's life is - not just the glamour and science," Evan Hadfield, the colonel's 28-year-old son who manages his father's Facebook, Tumblr and Google+ sites, told the Guardian in February.