Tribute to David Bowie from space station

“Saddened to hear David Bowie has lost his battle with cancer — his music was an inspiration to many,” Tim Peake wrote on Monday. 

The outer-space tribute seemed fitting. Unique and otherworldly, Bowie often seemed like a creature from another planet, the Starman of one of his 1970s hits. The cosmos fascinated him from his first big hit, Space Oddity. 

Released in 1969, the year of the first moon landing, it told the story of Major Tom, an astronaut adrift, “sitting in my tin can, far above the world.”