This is a duplicate post but I thought a lot of kids might like it.
The school kids here are so involved with this latest mission on the ISS that I think it is going to create a whole new generation of astronauts. Maybe one day Homesteading Today will include homesteads on distant planets lol! Last week Hadfield was chatting with William Shatner and his sound quality was better than that from Earth. At least this recording was great.
A lot of music has been written about space and space travel, but very few have been sung from space. And fewer still have involved a duet between someone in space and someone on the ground…and I can only think of one co-written by an astronaut and then recorded together via video link to space.
That song is
“I.S.S. (Is Somebody Singing)”, written by astronaut Chris Hadfield, current commander of
Expedition 34 on the International Space Station, and Ed Robertson from
Barenaked Ladies (if you don’t know, the group that did the theme song used by “The Big Bang Theory”). Performing with Hadfield and BNL are
the Wexford Gleeks, from the Wexford Collegiate School for the Arts.
The song is about going into space, looking back on Earth, and wanting to go home again. Unlike Elton John’s “Rocket Man”, though, this isn’t a song about loneliness and regrets, it’s about how amazing it is that we can go to space at all. My favorite line: “What once was fueled by fear, now has 15 nations orbiting together here.”
http://music.cbc.ca/recordings/conce...mebody-Singing
Is Somebody Singing (I.S.S)
By Chris Hadfield and The Barenaked Ladies
Lyrics
On solid fuel and wires
turn the key and light the fire
we’re leaving Earth today.
This rocket is burning bright
we’ll soon be out of sight
and orbiting in space.
Push back in my seat
look out my window
there goes home.
That ball of shining blue
houses everybody anybody ever knew
So sing your song
I’m listening out where stars are glistening
I can hear your voices bouncing off the moon.
If you could see our nation from the international space station
You know why i want to get back soon.
18 000 miles an hour
fueled by science and solar power. (?)
The oceans racing past
at half a thousand tonnes
90 minutes moon to sun
a bullet can’t go half this fast
Floating from my seat
look out my window
there goes home
that brilliant ball of blue
is where I’m from and also where I’m going to
So sing your song
I’m listening out where stars are glistening
I can hear your voices bouncing off the moon.
If you could see our nation from the international space station
You know why i want to get back soon.
All black and white just turns fades to grey
With sun rises 16 times a day
You can’t make out boarders from up here
Just a spinning ball within a tiny atmosphere
Push back in my seat look out my window
here comes home
What once was fueled by fear
now has 15 nations orbiting together here
So sing your song
I’m listening out where stars are glistening
I can hear your voices bouncing off the moon.
If you could see our nation from the international space station
You know why I want to get back soon.
(Getting back to you)
You know why I want to get back soon.
(Getting back to you)
You know why I want to get back soon.
(Getting back to you)
You know why I want to get back soon.
(Getting back to you)
You know why I want to get back soon.
(Getting back to you)
