Fifty years ago today
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The Moon Landing Inspired Pink Floyd’s Most Overlooked Song
A bluesy, atmospheric piece that the band improvised live on the air during the Apollo 11 mission deserves to be more than a footnote of musical history.
For seven and a half minutes on the night of July 20, 1969, Pink Floyd took thousands of BBC viewers to the moon. Of course, two men were already there: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, the Apollo 11 astronauts who became the first human beings to set foot on the lunar surface. However, the members of Pink Floyd—David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Nick Mason, and Richard Wright—weren’t using science, calculus, and technology to transport people through space on that fateful evening. They were using music, specifically an improvised and largely forgotten song called “Moonhead.”
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Quite an achievement considering how low their space agency program budget is (1.8B per year)
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@Stockcar86 said in Fifty years ago today:
Quite an achievement considering how low their space agency program budget is (1.8B per year)
I assume they've been putting rockets into orbit for a while? I assume they haven't sent a man into orbit?
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Satellites only. I can't remember when, but there was a good podcast I listened to about the India space program recently - it was probably on Main Engine Cut Off