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Listen to "Flyin' High" (mp3) The sound of music, yet another time-honored trademark of a Soyuz launch, provided temporary entertainment for the crew moments before blastoff. About an hour before the rocket's first two stages ignited, the crew nestled in their custom-fitted seat liners rocked out inside the descent module of the vehicle poised at the tip of the rocket. ZZ Top offered a track entitled "Flyin' High" from the new album, the band's first studio recording since 2005, to be played in honor of the crew's loved ones. An excerpt from the song's lyrics, "Flyin' high, I'm gonna touch the sky," resonates with the Soyuz trajectory and docking at the International Space Station. Fossum grew up in McAllen, TX, and holds a degree in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University. The long-bearded, American rock band also from Texas shares the common tie with Fossum in its roots. During the course of his previous mission aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery, Fossum played the band's hit "Got Me Under Pressure," a reference to the raising of cabin pressures during the course of that 2008 flight. Astronaut Fossum is joined on the Soyuz heading to the space station by Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov and Satoshi Furukawa of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. | ||||||||
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