Topic: One Direction "Drag Me Down" video and NASA
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42981 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 08-21-2015 06:51 AM
English-Irish pop boy band One Direction released the music video for their single "Drag Me Down" on Thursday (Aug. 20). The video was filmed on site at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston and in the space agency's hangars at nearby Ellington Airport.
The video features band members Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility (Building 9) inside the space station and Orion mockups, as well as interacting with Robonaut 2 and driving the Space Exploration Vehicle (SEV) rover. The video also includes footage from Mission Control and the 2014 EFT-1 launch (as well as another, non-Orion Delta IV Heavy flight).
mercsim Member
Posts: 219 From: Phoenix, AZ Registered: Feb 2007
posted 08-21-2015 09:36 AM
As an old guy, I'm not as much a fan of 1D as my pre-teen kids but that was pretty cool.
Nice find Robert
p51 Member
Posts: 1642 From: Olympia, WA Registered: Sep 2011
posted 08-21-2015 11:05 AM
I'm in my 40s (and straight), so I was never a big 'boy band' fan to speak of. That said, it IS a very well-done video. This has to be the only boy band video ever made with a flyable B-57 Canberra bomber in it. The weather recon bomber conversion is sitting in a hangar in the background in one of the scenes, if you know where to look and recognize the shape.
They did a decent job shooting at JSC to make it look as if the band was going on an Orion test launch. Looks like the "walking to the elevator" shots were filmed at building 9, perhaps? Hard to tell.
So cool they let the band suit up and climb into the Orion trainer.
As for the launch shots, I didn't see any shots from the EFT-1 launch. The only shots I noticed of a Delta looked like they were shot at Vandenberg to me. I'll have to go back and watch it again...
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42981 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 08-21-2015 11:14 AM
I almost didn't include EFT-1 in my description, but look at the monitors in Mission Control (White FCR).
posted 08-21-2015 10:02 PM
Seriously? It was okay; but the song lyrics had almost nothing to do with the video. Like some production wunderkid said. "Let's go get some footage at NASA."
posted 08-21-2015 06:51 AM
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