Space poddity

Astronaut Stephen Robinson on the end of the International Space Station's 58ft robot arm. Photograph: AP
a href="http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/david-bowie/36711.html">Space Oddity is never going to sound quite the same way again - not since I heard the astronaut Steve Robinson making the first podcast from space today. At that point, the shuttle was orbiting "just off the southeast tip of Indonesia", and he was expecting to come home in a matter of hours:

I think some people are ready to go home - I know I'm not. I would rather stay on the space station with Sergei and John and experience this strange, incredible life floating in Earth, above the Earth.

Thanks to low cloud over Florida today, Steve has got his wish and Discovery will be landing tomorrow, weather permitting.

You don't need an iPod or other music player to play the mp3 file - but if you do have one and haven't yet downloaded a podcast, what better way to begin?