You wouldn’t believe how much attention astronaut Chris Hatfield caught when he sang Space Oddity on the International Space Station
It was a magical moment in a genre where we should expect a cover-up. I can’t imagine an Edward Snowden type character fleeing with NASA secrets to Beijing, or Moscow. We live in a machine run society. Machine clocks wake us up on time. Some rush to work by accessing their home computer, while the rest of us have to wait for a train, or bus, or streetcar.
We have GPS, satellites roving the planet and other robot-run vehicles in places in the space beyond. Electrical gadget command our attention, including iPhone, or iPods. There are some people out there who even believe extraterrestrials
