Sweet dreams, and flying machines,And pieces on the ground -- um..."
Posted on 11/11/2005 4:09:33 AM PST by mym
WASHINGTON, November 10 (RIA Novosti) - Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney will perform live for the crew of the International Space Station November 13, NASA's press service said Thursday.
U.S. astronaut William McArthur and Russian cosmonaut Valery Tokarev will wake up this Sunday to McCartney serenading them live from Anaheim, California. He is scheduled to sing two songs, God Day Sunshine from The Beatles' Revolver album and English Tea from his last album, Chaos And Creation In The Backyard.
It is the first time that a live concert will be transmitted to a spacecraft.
Good Day Sunshine was used to wake up astronauts aboard the Discovery shuttle in August, and McCartney said he was so proud about their choice that he wanted to express his gratitude by giving a concert for the ISS crew.
I have often thought that if I were an astronaut, the custom of piping music in from Mission Control would be one of the most annoying parts of the job.
I don't understand why some people can force their taste in music or lack thereof on their betters!
What kind of bandwidth do they have for that link anyhow. A telephone-like 4kHz?
Do they have a snooze button?
Sweet dreams, and flying machines,And pieces on the ground -- um..."
Translation: "TURN THAT CRAP DOWN!"
......."in" pieces on the ground. Oh and I know there are a lot of Paul bashers here, but why the James Taylor lyric?
>> I have often thought that if I were an astronaut, the custom of piping music in from Mission Control would be one of the most annoying parts of the job.
AMEN! I am sick to the back teeth of the mentions of the wake-up music - have been for years. It's a pathetic attempt by the blind mice at NASA to grasp any sort of positive publicity. It's also demonstrative of a severe lack of subtlety - song is always 'Good Morning Starshine' or similar.
Also grating is the replacement of sober, this-is-important voices at mission control by chirpy PC PR hacks: "And we have liftoff of Columbia with two men, three women, a Japanese person, a gender neutral, and a partridge in a pear tree." WHO CARES!?!?!?!
He sang it to Homer Simpson when him and Buzz Aldrin were on the Space Shuttle
Ah yes. Now I remember. I couldn't make the connection.
LOL!!!!
Third time this topic has been posted.
Totally agree.
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