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Topic: Singing in Space
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Rodina
Member Posts: 836
From: Lafayette, CA
Registered: Oct 2001
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posted 03-27-2002 01:30 PM
  
The call-in question of the day (for the Request-o-Rama win) on KFOG out here in San Francisco was "What was the first song sung in outer space?"The nominal answer was "Happy Birthday to You", but they didn't have a mission or a date for such a thing - but I called after to get some data on that - and figured that one of you characters could help me out on this. Any idea what song might hold that distinction? I figured the Russians must have sung _something_ - and NASA probably didn't have that kind of sense of humor early on. Any ideas? Best,
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sts205cdr
Member Posts: 649
From: Sacramento, CA
Registered: Jun 2001
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posted 03-27-2002 01:42 PM
"Jingle Bells" during GT-6? Certainly the first use of musical instruments in space.--John ------------------
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cfreeze79
Member Posts: 455
From: Herndon, VA, USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 03-27-2002 01:50 PM
From Space.com"Happy Birthday" was the first song to be performed in outer space. It was sung by the Apollo IX astronauts in March, 1969. -CF |
sts205cdr
Member Posts: 649
From: Sacramento, CA
Registered: Jun 2001
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posted 03-27-2002 01:55 PM
What about GT-7? Borman & Lovell sang "He'll Have to Go" ('Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone') over and over.--John |
bruce
Member Posts: 916
From: Fort Mill, SC, USA
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 03-27-2002 02:12 PM
Borman actually sang? That's hard to imagine!Bruce |
sts205cdr
Member Posts: 649
From: Sacramento, CA
Registered: Jun 2001
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posted 03-27-2002 02:44 PM
Pop in your copy of "Moon Shot" and you won't have to imagine...These radio station quizzes, especially when it comes to space, are notoriously mis-informed. We had one out here not too long ago saying that the most popular food on the Space Shuttle is cashews. Not according to Vickie Kloeris, when I asked her earlier this month. Shrimp cocktail is the most accurate answer. --John |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3445
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 03-27-2002 05:05 PM
Wasn't it Tereshokva? Sotheby's had sold the recorder plus tape, and from what I heard at the Smithsonian lecture, the tape was pretty well worn from being played over and over. |
sts205cdr
Member Posts: 649
From: Sacramento, CA
Registered: Jun 2001
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posted 03-27-2002 05:20 PM
Hart, I think you may be right. Valeri Bykovsky is reported to have said:
"Communication with 'Chaika' is excellent, she is singing songs for me".
http://www.users.wineasy.se/svengrahn/trackind/Vostok5and6/Vostok56.htm |
WAWalsh
Member Posts: 809
From: Cortlandt Manor, NY
Registered: May 2000
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posted 03-28-2002 08:12 AM
If not a Soviet mission, the first song will be found during Gemini. Of course, the question becomes whether the question applies for a broadcasted song, ow simply a matter of an astronaut singing to himself or during private communications with the ground. Oddly, I just ran across a reference that in the Apollo spacecraft (and I presume this is true for Mercury and Gemini as well), one could not whistle while in space due to the air pressure level maintained within the capsule. This caused me to wonder whether or not this applies to the shuttle as well and, given the next crew up, whether or not Ellen Ochoa has ever brought her flute along on a mission to try a piece in space. |
Matt T
Member Posts: 1368
From: Chester, Cheshire, UK
Registered: May 2001
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posted 03-28-2002 10:07 AM
I'm sketchy on details here, but I think Ron McNair was going to play his sax on the shuttle as part of Jean Michel's Jarre's Houston concert.
Apparently Ron spent a lot of his scarce free time rehearsing his part, so I guess it must've been possible.
Cheers,
Matt |
ALAIN
Member Posts: 355
From: GENT, Belgium
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 03-28-2002 11:02 AM
It was definitely Valentina TERESHKOVA ! |
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