Canadian astronaut Cmdr. Chris Hadfield is best known as the first man to cover David Bowie's "Space Oddity" while actually in space. But the video of Hadfield's performance, seen 22 million times and counting, will vanish from YouTube today due to copyright complications.

The Soyuz TMA-12M space ship, carrying a new crew to the International Space Station, blasts off at a Russian-leased cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday. Onboard are two Russian cosmonauts and one American astronaut. Image via Dmitry Lovetsky/AP.

Thank God! It had been at least a month or two since House Speaker John Boehner was last seen bawling over, well, anything; we were starting to worry that he was getting his shit together.

81-year-old former astronaut and Dancing with the Stars geezer Buzz Aldrin is having a sex scandal. After 23 years of marriage, he left third wife Lois Driggs Cannon to be with 51-year-old marketer Michelle Sucillon, whom he met while signing books. Though not yet divorced, Buzz and Michelle have reportedly been "making out like teenagers" in public. Now Lois is giving scorched-earth interviews accusing Michelle of being "a predator," and Buzz of having "a midlife crisis in old age." Once you've been to the moon, it's hard to get thrills. [P6, Image of Buzz and Lois via Getty, Michelle via Facebook]

The Russian space programs ground specialists may soon have uniforms designed by Anna Chapman, the sexiest—and therefore the best—of the 10 Russian spies arrested and deported last year. Or at least, funded by her—details, like Chapman herself, are sketchy—according to astronaut Sergei Krikalev:

[Astronaut Douglas Wheelock took this picture of New York from the International Space Station and posted it to his Twitter account. He was probably wondering how many New Yorkers were stepping in human urine at this very moment. (via Gothamist)]

Astronaut Garrett Reisman showed off his love for the Bronx today while retrieving one of A-Rod's foul balls near the International Space Station. Image via Getty.

Aboard the International Space Station, Astronaut Donald Pettit demonstrated how taping together CD players can create extremely useful stable platforms, via gyroscopic force. It also means they can rock out to all their 90s jams while repairing oxygen tanks.

Sad Lisa Nowak, the 'astronut' who wanted nothing more than to be loved—and to avoid soiling her pants on her mission to attack, kidnap, and destroy her romantic rival—has been sentenced to 50 hours of community service.

One more argument for healthcare reform: Astronauts—actual NASA astronauts who fly to space on multibillion-dollar rockets and stuff—are scared that they can't get coverage. Or so says NASA's "chief bioethicist" in an interview with the New York Times.