MUMBAI: A Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has partnered with Ed Robertson, lead singer of the ‘Barenaked Ladies’ to create the first ever original track written and recorded in space, 402 km above the Earth aboard the International Space Station.

The pair wrote the song together before the collaboration was recorded through satellite at CBC Music’s studio in Toronto. The song, called ‘I.S.S. (Is Somebody Singing)’, focuses on the experience of a person in space missing his loved ones on the Earth below. Hadfield strums his guitar and sings on the International Space station while Robertson has his feet firmly on the ground. Hadfield performed from the cupola, which is an observation deck on the ISS.

Hadfield and Robertson began co-writing the song when Hadfield was still in training in Russia for his five-month mission on the ISS, agencies reported.

The duo first met more than a decade ago when Hadfield gave the band a tour of Mission Control in Houston. The song includes other members of the band along with the ‘Wexford Gleeks’, a youth choir from the Wexford Collegiate School for the Arts.

Hadfield’s collaboration with Robertson appears to have encouraged the astronaut’s musical side. Now that he’s recorded the first song in space, Hadfield plans to record a full album of songs he’s written while aboard the International Space Station.