Ongoing History Daily: Songs in space
A lot of music has been played in space starting with a Ukrainian folk song called “Watching the Sky and Thinking a Thought” performed by cosmonaut Pavlo Popovych on August 12, 1962 aboard
Read MoreA lot of music has been played in space starting with a Ukrainian folk song called “Watching the Sky and Thinking a Thought” performed by cosmonaut Pavlo Popovych on August 12, 1962 aboard
Read MoreI watched the whole bloody goofy insane thing. Nothing anywhere else in the universe is as OTT and cheesy as Eurovision. It begins with 37 countries which is whittled down to 26 finalists,
Read MoreHere’s a fun question: what is the rarest and most unattainable gold record in the universe? Actually, there are two. They’re the phonograph records attached to the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft which
Read MoreI got my first back-to-school school supplies email yesterday. Too soon, people. Too soon. And now, music news for July 5, 2018. This Tragically Hip cannabis event sounds like it was a great
Read MoreThe two most unattainable records in the universe are aboard the Voyager spacecraft, which are both flying beyond our solar system into the great void of the Milky Way. NASA’s Golden Records, curated
Read MoreBolted to the side of the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft are the famous “Sounds of Earth” Golden Records, a collection–an interstellar mixtape, if you prefer–of audio and video from Earth that may
Read MoreWhen the two Voyager spacecraft were launched on their grand tour of the solar system, they each left Earth with a phonograph record encoded with the sounds and pictures of what they left
Read MoreWhen the Voyager spacecraft were launched 40 years ago, each of them carried a Golden Record (that’s the official name), which is a gold-plated LP featuring the sounds of earth curated by astronomer
Read MoreOne of the coolest music projects ever was the Carl Sagan-curated Golden Record, phonograph records attached to the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft. Made of actual gold–the element stands up very well to
Read MoreI’m somewhere between Perth, Australia, and home in Toronto. Through the miracle of traveling east across the date line and through 13 time zones, my Thursday will be 37 hours long. And now,
Read More