Tomorrow is the 47th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s historic flight which made him the first human being to leave this planet. It’s also the anniversary of the first space shuttle launch, which took place exactly twenty years later, and today is the occasion of the 200th post on this blog. To celebrate two of the three events mentioned here, the NASA airfield outside San Francisco is hosting the Yuri’s Night event, which is a sort of cross between a technology expo and a music festival…
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Posts Tagged ‘space music’
Space Music: Celebrating Yuri’s Night
Friday, April 11th, 2008EMI Feared Extra-Terrestrial Piracy Of Beatles
Friday, March 21st, 2008Today’s post brings together two normally unconnected interests of mine; space exploration and music. This year is the 31st anniversary of the Voyager golden record launch – a disc containing various representations of humankind which was sent off into the cosmos (more as a symbol of hope and adventure than a serious attempt to make contact with alien civilisations). A compilation of music was placed on this disc, and the difficult task of reducing the entire musical output of humanity to one ‘greatest hits’ LP was curated by Carl Sagan…
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