What a lovely thing to do. Kudos to who ever arranged that.

Simon | February 12, 22:35 CET

Hey, Paolo, he took the sky from us!

MissKittysMom | February 12, 22:45 CET

Brilliant.

Linnea1928 | February 12, 22:46 CET

Awe. Some.

(it'd never wake me up though, too short, I need an alarm with stamina)

Saje | February 12, 23:06 CET

That's just about the coolest damn thing I heard all week.

sumogrip | February 12, 23:13 CET

...and then the space shuttle program was canceled. Coincidence?

dispatch | February 12, 23:20 CET

mp3.

CAPCOM Shannon Lucid: Good morning Endeavour. And a special good morning to you
today, Bob.
 
Mission Specialist Bob Behnken: Well thank you, Shannon. And a special good morning
back to you guys down in Houston for helping us out so much yesterday for a
successful EVA 1. And I'd also just like to say that both on Endeavour and on the
ISS, there is a little piece of Serenity for each of us who are fans of the Firefly
series. Thanks.

The One True b!X | February 13, 00:06 CET

Someone at Nasa sent us a link to the mp3 file so I added the link to the entry.

Simon | February 13, 00:06 CET

Geeks. Love them. Plus in any case I think this might be more akin to Dollhouse, they sort of already knew they were canceled going in but nevertheless the last episodes will still see airtime?

orangewaxlion | February 13, 00:22 CET

This is beautiful, and great to hear first thing in MY morning. And it's a lovely coda to the 'Breaking Atmo' project, too.

missb | February 13, 00:45 CET

That gave me shivers, listening to the mp3.

Lioness | February 13, 02:27 CET

I knew the space folks liked the show, but I'm still pinching myself. A wonderful tribute to the show that they're all really a part of space.

[ edited by Tonya J on 2010-02-13 02:45 ]

Tonya J | February 13, 02:41 CET

If you're wondering what he means by a little piece of Serenity on the ISS, it's likely he's referring to this.

The One True b!X | February 13, 04:01 CET

I've recently been working with the CIO of the International Space Station in Houston. I'll let him know that fandom appreciates this gesture! As a tech guy he probably played no role in choosing the wakeup music, but who knows?

SteveP | February 13, 04:08 CET

I'm really glad it was in response to the astronauts being fans, since otherwise it would have been awesome but a lil' awkward. Now it's 100% pure awesome with a side of awesomeberries.

ManEnoughToAdmitIt | February 13, 04:44 CET

What an honor!

stevekaw | February 13, 05:34 CET

Ooo, Joss! Lookit whatchoo did!

Grotesk | February 13, 07:49 CET

Someone at Nasa ...

Awe. Some. ^2.

Cheers for the MP3 NASA (and B!x). And for all our sakes, please, please keep flyin'.

Saje | February 13, 08:59 CET

Almost enough to renew my faith in humanity. :) Definitely warm & fuzzy to know that there are still firefly fans at NASA.

Shey | February 13, 13:40 CET

Thanks for posting lexigeek, that TOTALLY made my day! Browncoats are everywhere...even in space. :)

JT | February 13, 18:55 CET

Plus this Reaver reference:

Thanks for RT of #Firefly wake up song, @NathanFillion. Follow @NASA for all your Reaver-free space exploration news
about 2 hours ago from HootSuite

http://twitter.com/NASA (sorry, don't know how to link to an individual tweet).

I wonder if it's a bit of a generational change too. I saw an interview awhile back where NASA engineers mentioned being drawn to NASA because they watched Star Trek and Star Wars in school. Now Firefly is 8 years old, and I would guess those at NASA in charge of the Twitter account are likely younger (since NASA isn't likely to put a senior aeronautics engineer in charge of tweeting). Who knows, maybe Firefly inspired some of them to join NASA.

eyes of the world | February 13, 19:17 CET

This brings a smile to my face :)

LKW | February 14, 05:12 CET

I called Sonny and let him know. He was thrilled and his spirits were raised, which he really needed.

Brian DTI | February 18, 07:30 CET