Earth Day Serenade from Space

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I recorded Bandella’s live performance at the e.g. 7 conference this weekend. It’s a band of NASA astronauts, with Chris Hadfield currently in space (guitars, vocals, first Canadian Commander of the ISS), Micki Pettit (lead vocals), Cady Coleman (flute, 180 days in space so far) and other stars who drift into nearer-earth orbit.

They started with Van Morrison’s Moondance and then one I did not catch the name of.

I especially liked their last song, an ode by MIcki Petit to her husband Don Petit , the first astronaut to enter the SpaceX Dragon capsule in space, and the photographer of the beautiful pictures of Earth streaming by.

8 responses to “Earth Day Serenade from Space”

jurvetson

Apr 22, 2013 at 5:07 am

We are go flight
Micki Petit preparing to sing
Cady Coleman on flute and Chris Hadfield on guitar:On a prior performance, she was up there…
I had posted edited versions of some of Petit’s composites, and showed it to him yesterday:

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BillS49

Apr 22, 2013 at 5:19 am

That is SO cool!

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scleroplex

Apr 22, 2013 at 12:38 pm

amazing 🙂

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bike-R

Apr 22, 2013 at 5:44 pm

Awwwwww, shot, they did’nt wave back last night during their pass over NYC

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jurvetson

Apr 23, 2013 at 4:04 pm

How do you know?

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/24270806@N06] — I had not heard that one; what is the story behind it? I just have PPK Resurection with the cool transmissions…

And Mimosa found a fun instructional primer on space photography that Chris Hadfield just posted on YouTube.

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!MimosaMicheMichelle!

Apr 24, 2013 at 2:34 am

I have been following Col. Chris Hadfield in Facebook (he is on Twitter too, and YouTube and Soundcloud) since a very long time (a year). He has been in the International Space Station since December and later took over the command as the first Canadian astronaut to do so. He has less than a month to go. Since December, he has been sharing his incredible photos, several each day, (in English and in French) of our planet as he circles the Earth 16 times a day. It is like travelling along with him. viewing Earth from above.

You can find where the ISS is at any time of the day here:
Current position of the ISS (It circles the globe 16 times a day!)
iss.astroviewer.net/index2.php

Observation of the International Space Station
iss.astroviewer.net/observation.php

And you can see our world with Chris Hadfield’s photos in his Facebook page and also here:
Our world from the ISS (incomplete)
cogsnscc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/OnePane/basicviewer/index.h…

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!MimosaMicheMichelle!

Apr 25, 2013 at 2:08 pm

An out-of-this world show! Wonderful!

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jurvetson

May 13, 2013 at 3:40 am

His song for Mother’s Day — Space Oddity — is my new favorite.

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Earth Day Serenade from Space

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