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Friday, April 29, 2011

Technical Difficulties: Endeavor shuttle launch postponed. With space music by Lou Reed and David Bowie

By Jack Brummet,
Extraterrestrial Affairs Editor

NASA this morning delayed the launch of the space shuttle Endeavour for at least two days because of a technical problem.

This is a bit of a sad launch, since it is our last scheduled one. For the foreseeable future, any astronauts we send up will be hitching a ride with the Russians, or on one of the several private space vehicles soon to be deployed.

In honor of this final launch, a video of my favorite astronaut song -- David Bowie's Space Oddity.

http://youtu.be/uhSYbRiYwTY

And then, there's Lou Reed's great tune Satellite Of Love:

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