Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield is a rock star among geeks. His cover version of the David Bowie song “Space Oddity” has been viewed more than 22 million times on YouTube.

Those are numbers that ABC’s reality show The Bachelor could only dream of matching. So should we be surprised that the American broadcaster wants to make a sitcom out of Hadfield’s life?

An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth will be based on Hadfield’s 2013 memoir, according to a report by Deadline.

The series is described as “a family comedy about an astronaut who is back from space and finds that re-entering domestic life might be the hardest mission he’s ever faced.”

Hadfield was the first Canadian commander of a space mission and spent five months aboard the International Space Station.

He became an Internet sensation with his YouTube videos from the space, which include quirky experiments such as “Crying in Space” (1.3 million views), “How to Wash Your Hair in Space” (1.1 million views) and “How To Make a Peanut Butter Sandwich in Space” (strangely, only 714,000 views).

Anyone of those videos would be worthy of a sitcom in itself, which likely peaked the interest of Hollywood.

Not surprisingly, Hadfield was described in Forbes magazine as “possibly the most socially media savvy astronaut to leave the Earth.”

Before his lofty thoughts of space exploration and conquering Hollywood, Sarnia-born Hadfield grew up on a corn farm in southern Ontario and went to high school in Oakville and Milton.

He retired after he returned from the space station in 2013. Along the way he collected an Order of Ontario in 1996 and an Order of Canada this year. He turns 55 on Aug. 29.

And he’s been busy. Besides writing the book, which was a New York Times bestseller, he starts a three-year stint in the fall as a University of Waterloo professor. During that time, he will also be a consultant on the ABC show.

His second book, You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes, is due out this October.

The show pilot will be produced by Warner Bros TV and 3 Arts Entertainment under the auspices of Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker, the creators of Fox’s Surviving Jack.

Hollywood, meanwhile seems to have gone astronaut crazy.

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ABC already has The Astronaut Wives Club, which was due out this year but postponed until 2015, looking at the wives of astronauts left behind in the 1960s.

Another ’60s-themed show is NBC’s Mission Control, which is executive produced by Will Ferrell and looks at NASA scientists. The series promises to have a lot of Anchorman DNA, following a cocky astronaut who finds himself in battle with a headstrong female as he attempts to be the first man on the moon.

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