I didn’t know that space music was offered all night long on Bavarian TV: Who knew? German insomniacs watch NASA space feed all night – latimes.com
More about the program at Space Night -Wikipedia.
Here is the Space Night website (in German): Space Night: Der Countdown läuft… | Bayerisches Fernsehen | Fernsehen | BR.de.
It provides free space music tracks and videos.
Sarah Brightman describes her enthusiasm for space and her plans to go to the International Space Station in 2015: Sarah Brightman talks about her music, her tour and the biggest trip of her life – TwinCities.com.
Sierra Nevada has been developing their Dream Chaser spaceplane for several years. Mark Sirangelo of SNC has mentioned some interaction with Brightman’s Dream Chaser album and tour but I don’t know the extent of it.
Here is a video of the Moscow press conference in 2012 in which her ISS trip was announced:
Would have been great to watch “2001” with a live orchestra playing the soundtrack: New York Philharmonic Plays ‘2001 – A Space Odyssey’ – NYTimes.com.
Maybe this will happen someday at Wolf Trap, which just had a similar orchestral performance for Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings.
Physics grad student Timonthy Blais created the first viral video on the subject of string theory with the release last week of his amazing one man cover of Queen’s classic Bohemian Rhapsody : Canadian Physics Student’s Rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody Goes Viral – @pritheworld
While astronaut Cady Coleman was residing on the International Space Station, she spoke and exchanged email with actress Sandra Bullock to help her prepare for her role in the movie Gravity, which is set to be released on October 4th. : Astronaut gave ‘Gravity’ advice to Sandra Bullock from space – collectSPACE.
If you haven’t seen the trailer, here is the latest version:
This video of Coleman playing her flute on the ISS is not nearly as hectic but a lot closer to what life is like there:
And here is a duet with Ian Anderson: