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Topic:	College marching band spaceflight tributes

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by TLIGuy: [B]Always impressive stuff from OSU!![/B][/QUOTE]
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<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="600"><TR><td bgcolor="#000000"><TABLE BORDER=0 cellpadding=4 border=0 cellspacing=1 WIDTH="100%"><TR bgcolor="#660000"><TD COLSPAN=2><CENTER><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#ffffff" FACE="arial, helvetica">T O P I C     R E V I E W</font></CENTER></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top><FONT SIZE="2" FACE="arial, helvetica">Robert Pearlman</FONT></TD><TD><FONT SIZE="2" FACE="arial, helvetica">Ohio State <A HREF="https://news.osu.edu/video-ohio-state-marching-band-explores-the-space-race-at-halftime/" TARGET=_blank>release</A> <blockquote><font size="+0"><B>Ohio State marching band explores the space race at halftime</B></font><P>Buckeye fans know The Ohio State University Marching Band musicians have the right stuff, and they proved it with a tribute to the dawn of the space age at halftime during the football game against Michigan State University.<P>Titled "One Giant Leap," the halftime show mixed music from "The Right Stuff," "Apollo 13" and "First Man" with formations that included a rocket blasting off from Cape Canaveral, an astronaut on a spacewalk and a lunar module landing on the moon.<P>Marching band director Christopher Hoch designed the drill with Dublin Jerome High School Director of Bands Brian Stevens. Their design included an American rocket overtaking a Soviet rocket to the music of Gustav Holst's "Jupiter" and a space capsule landing safely on Earth to the theme from "Apollo 13."</blockquote> <center><iframe width="400" height="225" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yE9b4TcFSfk" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen>

TLIGuy

Always impressive stuff from OSU!!

perineau

Now, that was cool!!! Had goose bumps watching! Thanks for posting!

Grounded!

Wow! Two of my favorite things, the space program and marching bands. Thanks for posting.

Robert Pearlman

Purdue University's marching band included a tribute to the school's astronaut alumni during the halftime of the Homecoming game on Oct. 12, 2019:

The same day, the Notre Dame Marching Band paid tribute to the moon landing:

On Oct. 26, Michigan State's marching band performed "We Choose to Go," including a special message from aboard the International Space Station:

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