On Episode 109 of This Week In Space, Rod and Tariq talk with Chris Carberry, CEO of Explore Mars, about the long history of music influencing how we think about spaceflight.
From the scores of early silent films to the modern classics we all know, like 2001: A Space Odyssey and the never-ending franchises of Star Trek and Star Wars, we often have a riff going through our minds when we see a space image — few can hear Strauss' Blue Danube without thinking of the space station in 2001, or see a tilted yellow title scroll without hearing that first orchestral crash of John Williams' immortal Star Wars score.
And, in real life, we had the talented astronaut Chris Hadfield performing David Bowie's classic hit Major Tom, augmented by upbeat lyrics. Space music is big, and Chris Carberry, author of the recently released book The Music of Space, is here to tell us why!
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Space news of the week
- China launches Chang'e 6 to moon
- Boeing on track
- JWST Exoplanet Weather maps--NASA/JPL press release
- Explore Mars
- The Music of Space: Scoring the Cosmos in Film and Television (Amazon Affiliate Link)
- Alcohol in Space: Past, Present and Future (Amazon Affiliate Link)
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