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Topic: first to sing!?
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Ashy
Member Posts: 157
From: Preston, England
Registered: Mar 2004
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posted 02-17-2006 03:06 PM
   
A mate at work asked me a question today that he heard on a quiz programme the other day.
Who was the first person/crew to sing in space?At first I thought of the Gemini 6 crew playing jingle bells, and then remembered reading of Yuri Gagarin singing to himslef whilst in orbit. I gave both as possible answers but was told I was wrong on both counts. I was told the correct answer was the crew of the Apollo 9 crew. Has anyone heard of this? I have never read of any such thing but throw the question to the forum. Ashy |
mjanovec
Member Posts: 3811
From: Midwest, USA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 02-17-2006 04:14 PM
Apollo 9 was NOT the first crew to sing. I love it when someone asks a trivia question that they don't even know the answer to (but think they do). While I doubt Gemini VII was first either, both Borman and Lovell told of singing to pass the time during their two-week mission. If you watch the Nova "To the Moon" documentary, they both sing the song with the words "Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone..." |
Duke Of URL
Member Posts: 1316
From: Syracuse, NY
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 02-17-2006 07:17 PM
I had that song on my answering machine! |
John K. Rochester
Member Posts: 1292
From: Rochester, NY, USA
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 02-17-2006 07:39 PM
I've gotta believe Yuri was singing sometime during that flight..and unless Laika was barking a tune, he would have been first. |
carmelo
Member Posts: 1051
From: Messina, Sicilia, Italia
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 02-17-2006 08:23 PM
Pete Conrad on Gemini-5: "Over the sky,over the blue,this is Gemini-5 who sing to you,who siiing to youuu". |
kyra
Member Posts: 583
From: Louisville CO US
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 02-19-2006 10:48 AM
I do know that Bykovskiy and Tereshkova sang the "Cosmonauts Song" on Vostok 5 & 6 (June 1963). So this is possibly the first duet in orbit, and Tereshkova was the first woman to sing in space. Yuri Gagarin did sing awaiting launch, but I'm not sure about in orbit.Do we have any Mercury astronauts singing ? If, not we will have to look to Vostok for another "first". |
Rex Hall
Member Posts: 170
From: London, England
Registered: Oct 2001
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posted 02-20-2006 03:50 AM
Good Morning
I would bet it was Popovich who was and is a great singer with a fabulous voice. In recent times many Russians have sang and even composed songs in orbit. Musabayev recorded a record from orbit. He has a fabulous voice. I remember when we were on a bus from central Moscow going back to Star City a journey of over 2 hours he sang the whole way back. Beatles to Kazakh folk songs. Romanenko played guiter in orbit which was played on Russian radio. The guiter is now at his home having been brought back on a Shuttle flight.
Best Wishes
Rex |
Ashy
Member Posts: 157
From: Preston, England
Registered: Mar 2004
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posted 02-20-2006 06:35 AM
Thanks to all. Theres plenty there to throw back at my friend! However, if they did sing on Apollo 9 who was it and what did they sing?Si |
nasamad
Member Posts: 2141
From: Essex, UK
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 02-20-2006 01:18 PM
If I remember correctly it was the full crew singing and it was Happy Birthday to one of the flight controllers (or maybe a CapCom).Adam |
Jim
Member Posts: 73
From: San Antonio TX
Registered: Mar 2006
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posted 03-28-2006 01:12 PM
Don't know about the first to sing in space, but I believe the first (and unfortunately to date, the last) to sing on the moon was Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt on Apollo 17.Who can forget their rendition of "I was strolling on the moon one day..."? |
ilbasso
Member Posts: 1522
From: Greensboro, NC USA
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted 03-28-2006 02:22 PM
There is an electronic music keyboard aboard the ISS. There is an all-astronaut band called "Max-Q" that was formed by Hoot Gibson, Pinky Nelson, and Brewster Shaw. See the current and past members listed at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Q_%28Astronaut_band%29 |
Blackarrow
Member Posts: 3160
From: Belfast, United Kingdom
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 03-28-2006 03:58 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Jim:
Don't know about the first to sing in space, but I believe the first (and unfortunately to date, the last) to sing on the moon was Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt on Apollo 17.Who can forget their rendition of "I was strolling on the moon one day..."?
I think Cernan and Schmitt both fervently hope that people HAVE forgotten their singing by now! |
mjanovec
Member Posts: 3811
From: Midwest, USA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 03-28-2006 04:14 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Blackarrow:
I think Cernan and Schmitt both fervently hope that people HAVE forgotten their singing by now!
Fat chance! Whenever I see Apollo EVA footage on the television, these tend to be the highlights we see: 1. Neil Armstrong's "first step" (although they often use Aldrin's ladder jump, with the audio from Neil's first step). 2. The lunar rover Grand Prix. 3. Gene and Jack "strolling on the moon one day." 4. Al Shepard's golf swing. Dave Scott's feather and hammer experiment doesn't get a lot of airing by mainstream media...probably because average people don't really know what Galileo hypothesized (or worse, don't even know who Galileo was). If the camera had worked on Apollo 12 for longer, I'm sure there would be some highlights from the Pete and Al show that would get a lot of airing. [This message has been edited by mjanovec (edited March 28, 2006).] |
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