Want to watch an astronaut perform a David Bowie song in space? Unfortunately, it may be too late now.

A year ago, Commander Chris Hadfield performed Space Oddity aboard the International Space Station. Already an internet sensation thanks to his spectacular tweets from space, his cover soon racked up millions of views on YouTube.

Sadly, from today, you will no longer be able to watch this hugely popular viral video because, according to Hadfield, they only had permission from Bowie's people to keep it up for a year.

In a tweet on Tuesday, the now retired astronaut said:

Bowie's last day - we had permission for a year, so our Space Oddity video comes down today. One last look: http://t.co/z6umXHoPCk — Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) May 13, 2014

Posting on Reddit, Hadfield and his son Evan, who helped create the video, expanded on their reasons for taking the video down and said they were working on renewing the license at a later date.

It has been a year since my son and I created and released the Space Oddity video. We have been amazed and delighted that so many people enjoyed it - and maybe saw what spaceflight can really be like. It helped show that humans have left Earth, and that the Space Station is a new stage, for not just science and exploration, but for our art and music too. With exploration comes insight – with perspective comes self-realization. We had permission from David Bowie’s people to post the video on YouTube for a year, and that year is up. We are working on renewing the license for it, but as there are no guarantees when it comes to videos shot in space, we thought you might want to have one last look before we take it down. Thanks for everything. You've all been incredible throughout.

While the original video has been made private, a number of copies and parodies can still be found on YouTube.