I am a HUGE Jethro Tull fan. So much so-I am scheming to get to one of their performances when they tour the US this summer. So I found this unique video made with Ian Anderson and Astronaunt Cady Coleman to be pretty cool. She herself being an accomplished flautist.
Bonus points if you can name the song!
And while Yuri Gagarin was an astronaunt-he was still a commie astronaunt. How about a shout out for the Mercury astronauts too? It is what it was. After all-I spent the better part of my adult life prepared to help give the Russians a beating they would remember for generations. Old habits die hard.
JS Bach’s Bourée was wonderful before Ian Anderson riffed on it, but I think Bach would be pleased.
Carpenter and Glenn are all that’s left of the Mercury Seven.
My ex-wife used to play the flute in High School. She always said Ian Anderson blew out the pads on a flute and she didn’t like it. I don’t know if that is right or not-but that was what she said.
To you the Russians were the folks to beat, but to today’s American astronauts they are the Ride Home. Best be nice to them – it’s a long walk otherwise. Gotta say, though, that I love the zero-G hair.
True that. Sad, if you ask me-especially living in a town with a big NASA population.
Got a whole Saturn V sitting sideways there at the museum. Lost tech. Reminds me of the story of replacing one of those 286 computers on a shuttle years and years ago. Recreating the dinosaur.
I never understood why we didn’t just build some newer shuttles-even if it was just and improved design of the spacecraft. It probably doesn’t cost any more than a couple of F-22’s. Damn sight more useful.
Yeah, I think our giving up manned spaceflight was a disgrace. Having said that, the shuttle concept never really worked out. I think the (now-cancelled) followon using one-time use vehicles was the way to go. Meanwhile, maybe the Rutan space plane will work out. We’ll see.