Alan Parson dedicates a concert performance of Eye in the Sky to Luca Parmitano, the sixth Italian astronaut in space and first to go on a spacewalk: Alan Parson’s Project Dedicates Song to ISS Astronaut Parmitano – Universe Today

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On Tuesday, 23 July, the Alan Parsons Live Project played at the Foro Italico in Rome. Alan dedicated his classic song Eye in the Sky to ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano and recorded a video message that was sent to International Space Station. Eye in the Sky is one of Luca’s favourite songs, and on viewing this message, Luca said, “Fantastico!”

Luca Parmitano is the sixth Italian astronaut in space, but he was the first to really go ‘into space’ and leave the the protective shell of his spacecraft, when he made two spacewalks a few weeks ago during his Volare mission.

Video copyright: ESA/Alan Parsons Music
Sirius/Eye in the Sky written by: A. Parsons/E. Woolfson
Music excerpts, courtesy Alan Parsons Music
Video produced by ESA/M. Civita

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Space Elevator Conference in August + CLIMB Vol. 2 now available

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Registration is open for the ISEC Space Elevator Conference, August 23-25, at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington.

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The second issue of the CLIMB – The Space Elevator Journal is now on sale : Volume 2 of CLIMB now available! – The Space Elevator Blog

CLIMB – Vol.2/Num.1

This is the second issue of CLIMB. It contains 6 peer-reviewed articles, the paper which earned an “Honorable Mention” in the 2011 Artsutanov Prize competition, a recounting of the history of the Space Elevator by none other than co-inventor Jerome Pearson and much more.
Editor-in-Chief: Ted Semon
Technical Review Lead: Ben Shelef
Publication date: July, 2013
A print copy of this Journal can be purchased for $14.99 (plus shipping & handling) from lulu.com. Visiting this site also allows you to see a preview of the Journal. A pdf version of Volume 2 will be available shortly.