Live, from Space! <\/p>\n
Face it, space travel is cool. But space travel with a soundtrack? That just plain rocks. <\/p>\n
Here's a look at some of our favorite space and space-themed music video from NASA and others through the years. Tip: Don't miss Chris Hadfield's amazing \"Space Oddity\" music video<\/a> in here. <\/p>\n FIRST STOP: Best Venus Transit Moments <\/p>\n The rare astronomical event of Venus crossing the face of the sun on June 6, 2012, was caught by on video by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in different wavelengths of light. The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) took the images, which have 8x finer resolution than HDT. Video editors trimmed six hours of footage down to a quick 3 minutes, and added stirring music to the moving images. Watch the Video<\/b><\/a>. <\/p>\n NEXT: Astronaut Plays Flute in Space <\/p>\n Astronaut Cady Coleman brought her flute aboard the International Space Station, where from 220 miles above the Earth, she played a tune about a seafaring vessel. The performance of Feb. 9, 2011, was recorded in an NPR interview. In addition to her own flute, she also brought instruments on loan from the Irish international folk superstars, The Chieftains, as well as Ian Anderson, flautist and lead singer of Jethro Tull. That long-running prog-rock band (of \"Aqualung\" fame) outstripped perhaps all of their contemporaries in spacy-ness when later Anderson and Coleman played an Earth-space duet during a Tull concert. Watch the Video<\/b><\/a>. <\/p>\n NEXT: Moon Shadows <\/p>\n Ethereal music by Mark Peters accompanies videos of the annular eclipse that took place on May 20, 2012. NASA\/JAXA (Hinode), ESA, Matt Hartman, Cory Pool and Alek O. Komarnitsky supplied the moving images. Watch the Video<\/b><\/a>. <\/p>\n NEXT: Dance of Discovery <\/p>\n Ambient music by Jonn Serrie provides an atmospheric audio background for these images of space shuttle Discovery during mission STS-133, after the spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station. The flight marked the end of Discoverys life in space, and took place during Feb.-March 2011. Discoverys final flyaround of the ISS provided views of the Sahara Desert and the coasts of Africa and Europe. Watch the Video<\/b><\/a>. <\/p>\n NEXT: Stars From Space Station <\/p>\n Music by London PM underscores captivating time-lapse imagery of stars as seen from the vantage point of the orbiting International Space Station. Auroras, airglow, lightning, clouds and electric lights also appear. Alex Rivest compiled the imagery. Star trails processed using StarStaX. Watch the Video<\/b><\/a>. <\/p>\n NEXT: Rubber Chicken in Space <\/p>\n Internet celebrity Camilla Corona SDO flew to an altitude of 120,000 feet (about 36,500 meters) aboard a helium balloon with no protective gear other than a helmet and a knitted sweater, courtesy of the Members of the Earth to Sky student group at Bishop Union High School in Bishop, CA. Fortunately, Camilla suffered no ill effects, as she is a chicken made of rubber. Rock supergroup Chickenfoot appropriately supplied the music (\"Up Next\") for the video. The group includes members of Van Halen and Red Hot Chili Peppers. Watch the Video<\/b><\/a>. <\/p>\n NEXT: Space Station Acrobatics <\/p>\n NASA astronaut Jeffrey Williams demonstrates flying and floating techniques of getting around the International Space Station in this music video featuring footage taken during the Expedition 13 mission in 2006. Watch the Video<\/b><\/a>. <\/p>\n NEXT: Stunning Time-Lapse Video <\/p>\n Astrophotographer Randy Halverson created this time-lapse video of the night sky above the northern United States, entitled \"Temporal Distortion. Bear McCreary, who composed the original score for the video, has written music for television shows \"Battlestar Galactica,\" \"The Walking Dead,\" and \"Eureka.\" Stunning meteors, the cloudy Milky Way, and even rainbow-colored auroras shine in the video. Halverson said of the video, \"It is the result of 20-30 second exposures edited together over many hours to produce the time-lapse. See the full story<\/a><\/b>. <\/p>\n NEXT: The Beatles 'Back In The...ISS'? <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Here is the original post: <\/p>\n Best Space Music Videos Ever: A Rockin' Chart Countdown<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Live, from Space! Face it, space travel is cool. But space travel with a soundtrack Continue reading