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NASA began a tradition of playing music to astronauts during the Gemini program, and first used music to wake up a flight crew during Apollo 15. Each track is specially chosen, often by the astronauts' families, and usually has a special meaning to an individual member of the crew, or is applicable to their daily activities.
Mission engineers played a song each day to inspire Opportunity to turn back on. The rover lasted far longer than its 90-day expected lifetime. For 15 years, NASA engineers played the Opportunity ...
The song was written, produced and performed by Stirling and is an instrumental track. [1] The track was released prior to the full album, and the launch event showed Stirling as a virtual reality avatar performing the song via Wave. [2] [3] In March 2020, NASA launched a video created with Stirling promoting their 2024 Artemis Space Program.
Video while in orbit on September 15, 1991, shows a flash of light and several objects that appear to be flying in an artificial or controlled fashion. NASA explained the objects as ice particles reacting to engine jets. [5] [6] [7] Philip C. Plait discussed the issue in his book Bad Astronomy, agreeing with NASA. [8]
Mythodea — Music for the NASA Mission: 2001 Mars Odyssey is a choral symphony [1] by Greek electronic composer and artist Vangelis.It premiered as a single concert in Athens, Greece, in 1993 [2] but a recording was only released in 2001 by Vangelis' then new record label Sony Classical, which also set up the NASA connection and promoted a new concert, this time with a worldwide audience.
The DJ is voiced by longstanding Carpenters' guitarist Tony Peluso, who can be seen in that role at the start of the video for the track. [11] The vocal melody ranges from B♭3 to G♭5. [12] [a] The Carpenters' arrangement of the song was later copied on a sound-alike cover released on the 1977 album Top of the Pops, Volume 62.
The event marked the third time a song had ever been intentionally transmitted into deep space (the first being Russia's Teen Age Message in 2001, and the second being the 2003 Cosmic Call 2 message which included "Starman" by David Bowie and music from the Hungarian band KFT), [2] [3] and was approved by Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, and Apple ...
STS-9's six-member crew, the largest of any human space mission at the time, included John W. Young, commander, on his second shuttle flight; Brewster H. Shaw, pilot; Owen K. Garriott and Robert A. Parker, both mission specialists; and Byron K. Lichtenberg and Ulf Merbold, payload specialists – the first two non-NASA astronauts to fly on the ...