Pierwszy utwór muzyczny w kosmosie
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Chociaż obecnie kojarzy się ją głównie ze Bożym Narodzeniem, to pierwotnie nie była ona kolędą, ale piosenką ludową.
On December 16, 1965, while in orbit above planet Earth, the crew of Gemini 6 added another milestone to their already historic mission.
Astronauts Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford reported sighting an object, a satellite, in a "polar orbit...traveling North to South."
"Stand by, he's trying to signal something," reported Schirra.
The next thing heard at Mission Control was a rendition of Jingle Bells performed by the astronauts using instruments which they had smuggled onboard.
The story is well known. The harmonica and string of bells are now housed at The Smithsonian, and the incident is believed to be the first time human beings ever played music in outer space.
But no recording of the song has ever been made available. Until now.
I've been looking all over the Internet for this recording for more than a year with no success. So I started asking for help.
KUOW reporter Phyllis Fletcher pointed me toward NASA's Media Resource Center in Houston Texas.
After digging around their Web site and calling the phone tree at Johnson Space Center, I eventually reached Librarian Jody Russell. Her contacts in the Audio Department pointed me to the online archive for the entire Gemini 6 and 7 joint mission.
They narrowed it down to 8 audio files for me, which covered about 33 hours of the mission. They also provided me with links to mission transcripts that I could use as reference to find the song.
The message from NASA ended with "...it's in there somewhere."
And it was.
Enjoy!
On December 16, 1965, while in orbit above planet Earth, the crew of Gemini 6 added another milestone to their already historic mission.
Astronauts Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford reported sighting an object, a satellite, in a "polar orbit...traveling North to South."
"Stand by, he's trying to signal something," reported Schirra.
The next thing heard at Mission Control was a rendition of Jingle Bells performed by the astronauts using instruments which they had smuggled onboard.
The story is well known. The harmonica and string of bells are now housed at The Smithsonian, and the incident is believed to be the first time human beings ever played music in outer space.
But no recording of the song has ever been made available. Until now.
I've been looking all over the Internet for this recording for more than a year with no success. So I started asking for help.
KUOW reporter Phyllis Fletcher pointed me toward NASA's Media Resource Center in Houston Texas.
After digging around their Web site and calling the phone tree at Johnson Space Center, I eventually reached Librarian Jody Russell. Her contacts in the Audio Department pointed me to the online archive for the entire Gemini 6 and 7 joint mission.
They narrowed it down to 8 audio files for me, which covered about 33 hours of the mission. They also provided me with links to mission transcripts that I could use as reference to find the song.
The message from NASA ended with "...it's in there somewhere."
And it was.
Enjoy!
Witam, fajny blog, ale uwazam ze wysylanie utworow w przestrzen kosmiczna moze byc bledem, zalozmy ze jakas wysoce postawiona cywlizacja pozaziemska zaanalizuje ten utwor pod wzgledem rozbicia go na czynniki pierwsze, analize szumow, analize instrumenu i uzna ze stanowimy zagrozenie wg ich zasad?
OdpowiedzUsuńLepszym rozwiazaniem jest nagranie pozdrowien we wszystkich jezykach swiata co bylo juz wielokrotnie pokazywane na filmach np "Starman" Polecam bardzo dobry film
OdpowiedzUsuńCiekawy artykuł:) Bardzo fajny blog, życzę powodzenia w jego dalszym prowadzeniu:) Pozdrawiam
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