Have you ever seen a kid at a soccer game that stops and looks up every time a plane flies over? I was that kid. In a lot of ways, I still am
I love airplanes and have been fortunate to spend my career working in aviation. But before that, I was fascinated by space. I’d read anything I could about Apollo, Mercury, and other pioneering space programs. I watched when Columbia took off for the first time. I was watching when Challenger took for the last time.
I have always found space exploration to be daring and…aspirational? There is also something compelling about the way it used to unite the nation that I find appealing. The latest projects by Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson are cool, but they’re not in the same league.
Public Service Broadcasting’s 2015 album Race For Space documents that pivotal era, with each track reliving the early parts of the US and Soviet space race. Go! captures the energy of Apollo 11’s mission to the moon overlaid recordings of Mission Control’s iconic vest-wearing Gene Krantz.
More: Watch a live 2019 live BBC performance marking the 59th anniversary of the lunar landing here (video has flashing images).
“Go!” by Public Service Broadcasting| Race For Space 2015
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