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NASA launches space song contest
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 26 August 2010
NASA have launched two competitions to select songs that will be played to astronauts on the final two missions of the space shuttle programme. The first a poll to choose one of 40 songs played on previous missions, the second the opportunity to have one of your own songs played during the final mission next February.
Amongst the songs in the first vote are ‘Beautiful Day’ by U2, ‘What A Wonderful World’ by Louis Armstrong and ‘Fly Me To The Moon’ by Frank Sinatra. But probably more exciting is the second part of the competition, calling on musicians to upload their own songs for use during the STE-134 trip to the International Space Station, aka the final shuttle flight. Your song might even be heard by aliens. I hear the music industry in other parts of the galaxy is far more stable than our own.
To vote and/or upload music, head to this quite shoddy looking website: songcontest.nasa.gov
