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The lyrics paint a vivid account of the group's experiences witnessing the launch. The song closes the album, with its cautionary tales of man's reliance on technology, on a more positive, celebratory note. [5] The song was used as a wakeup song for astronauts during STS-109, which was the last successful flight of Space Shuttle Columbia.
Written by band flautist Ray Thomas, "Floating" is a jaunty, semi-children's song about a future in which advances in space travel have enabled the Moon to become a family vacation spot. The song's lyrics describe the experience of "Floating" from weightlessness due to the microgravity experienced in space flight.
In 1777, Joseph Haydn's opera "Il mondo della luna"("The world on the moon") premiered. Author and classical music critic David Hurwitz describes Joseph Haydn's choral and chamber orchestra piece, The Creation, composed in 1798, as space music, both in the sense of the sound of the music, ("a genuine piece of 'space music' featuring softly pulsating high violins and winds above low cellos and ...
The song was played to open night-time transmission of the pirate radio station Radio Caroline. The year following its release, American soft rock duo the Carpenters covered the song, using a crew of 160 musicians. [5] The Carpenters' version reached the top 10 in the UK and Canada, and charted at number 1 in Ireland.
"When I smell you, I feel so cham."This article, 'Haze Song' helps Singaporeans laugh through the coughs as air quality plunges, originally appeared on Coconuts, Asia's leading alternative media ...
Space Songs is an album in the "Ballads For The Age of Science" or "Singing Science" series of scientific music for children from the late 1950s and early 1960s. Songs were written by Hy Zaret (lyrics) and Lou Singer (music).
The astronauts aboard the Boeing Starliner could remain in space for several months – but many wonder if they have enough food and water to survive that long.. During a recent interview with the ...
After coming back from a spacewalk and pulling off their helmets, astronauts are hit with the scent of cosmic molecules that hitch a ride on their suits. According to their descriptions, the smell ...