"What happens to you when you can’t walk for a year? When you can’t have sex? What happens if you vomit in your helmet during a space walk?"

Track two on Avalon, one of Roxy Music’s finest records.

I’m somewhere between incredulous that this is a ‘thing', and impressed that 'months were spent hammering out details with Mr Bowie’s representatives’. Someone’s written a paper “Space Copyright Law: the new dimension” for gawd’s sake!

"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.” Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

“Although space is a virtual vacuum, this does not mean there is no sound in space. Sound does exist as electromagnetic vibrations. The recorded sounds are the complex interactions of charged electromagnetic particles from the Solar Wind, ionisphere, and planetary magnetosphere.”

Classic human visualisation of the vastness of space (and the tinyness of matter).

The space station orbits Earth about every 90 minutes, so if it’s night time check back in half an hour and you will see daylight.

Taken at the abandoned Baikonur Cosmodrome