2001: A Space Odyssey came out on screens a year before the Apollo 11 mission to the moon and inspired Bowie’s single Space Oddity of 1969 (Jones, 2012). Bowie watched the film three times on a 70mm screen, “I found the whole thing amazing. I was out of my gourd, very stoned when I went to see it -several times- and it was really a revelation to me. It got the song flowing”, said Bowie in 2012. The song was constructed well with seven different sections while gaining attention when BBC network used it as the background music for the coverage of the US moon landing (Jones, 2012). “It was picked up by British television and used as the background music for the landing itself, though I’m sure they really weren’t listening to the lyrics; it wasn’t
