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On July 29, 1958, the U.S. Congress officially passed legislation that established the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) -- a civilian agency that is responsible for ...
NASA astronaut Catherine Coleman plays a flute aboard the International Space Station in 2011.. Music in space is music played in or broadcast from a spacecraft in outer space. [1] [failed verification] The first ever song that was performed in space was a Ukrainian song “Watching the sky...” [2] (“Дивлюсь я на небо”) sung on 12 August 1962 by Pavlo Popovych, cosmonaut ...
"Reach for the Stars" was written in February 2011, after NASA asked will.i.am to write and produce a song for the Curiosity rover's landing on Mars. The songwriter said that the experience with NASA administrator Charles Bolden discussing the possibility of broadcasting a song from Mars was "surreal", The song is part of NASA's educational outreach, with will.i.am stating that the song "aims ...
A security guard examines the new sign near the entrance to the Lewis Research Center one day after the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was officially established. NASA came into being on October 1, 1958, and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ( NACA ) Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory became the NASA Lewis ...
The rover lasted far longer than its 90-day expected lifetime. For 15 years, NASA engineers played the Opportunity rover a daily 'wake-up' song. Listen to the best songs from the Mars morning ...
It took 14 minutes for the song to reach Venus, which NASA said is Elliott’s favorite planet, from the agency’s Jet Propulsion Lab in Southern California. The total distance traveled from ...
NASA associate administrator Thomas Zurbuchen said, "It is therefore that I am standing here with a deep sense of appreciation and gratitude that I declare the Opportunity mission is complete." [36] As NASA ended their attempts to contact the rover, the last data sent was the song "I'll Be Seeing You" performed by Billie Holiday. [37]
The rapper’s song “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly” was transmitted at the speed of light — approximately 158 million miles — from Earth to Venus, which is her “favorite planet,” NASA’s ...