Space Oddity (comic story)

Space Oddity
Doctor:	Eleventh Doctor
Main enemy:	Vashta Nerada
Main setting:	Above Earth, 1965
Key crew
Publisher:	IDW Publishing
Editor:	Denton J. Tipton
Writer:	Joshua Hale Fialkov
Artist:	Andres Ponce Horacio Domingues Rubén González
Colourist:	Adrian Salmon
Letterer:	Shawn Lee
Release details
Printed in:	DW12 7 - 8
Release date:	27 March - 17 April 2013
Format:	American comic book 2 issues
Doctor Who (2012)
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You may be looking for the song of the same name.

Space Oddity was a two-issue comic story from the Doctor Who (2012) range.

Summary

When a cosmonaut attempts the first space walk in 1965, the rest of his crew watches in horror as he's swallowed whole by shadow. Only the Doctor can save the spacecraft and the historically important mission.

Plot

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Characters

• Eleventh Doctor
• Alexey Leonov
• Dmitri Selonovitch

Worldbuilding

• The Doctor guesses that the TARDIS's atmosphere has a range of 30 metres.
• The taiga is a boreal forest in the arctic, the largest terrestrial biome.
• The TARDIS generates a simply energy bridge enabling the Doctor and Alexey to "walk" in space.
• Upon returning to Earth, Alexey threatens the Russian government into installing an internal full-array lighting system in all space suits.

Notes

• The title is a reference to the song of the same name written by David Bowie.

Continuity

• The Doctor previously walked through space from his TARDIS. (TV: The Horns of Nimon)
• The Doctor comments about Russians changing history. They previously covered up a failed launch of Sputnik after the satellite was hijacked by Template:Frontier on 1 May 1957. (PROSE: First Frontier)
• The Doctor encounters the Vashta Nerada again. (AUDIO: Night of the Vashta Nerada, Day of the Vashta Nerada; TV: Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead; GAME: Shadows of the Vashta Nerada)
• The Doctor invokes Convention 15 of the Shadow Proclamation. (TV: Rose)