While listening to one of my favorite podcasts, I heard a recommendation for the album The Race for Space by the British band Public Service Broadcasting. Now I'm not a huge electronic music fan, but this is a good album. I have to admit, I may enjoy it a wee bit more because of the extra-geeky history portrayed through the songs.
While listening to this album the other day, my four-year-old daughter asked me about the music. I told her what the songs were about, and like the good daughter of a nerd, she asked for more information. We were soon looking up and drawing pictures of Sputnik, Yuri Gagarin’s Vostok 1, Apollo 8, and the Eagle (LM of Apollo 11).
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| Clearly this is Yuri Gagarin on his way to Space, |
The only downside to this whole activity is that my daughter loves the song "The Other Side," and asks for it to play repeatedly.
There is a point in the song where Ground Control in Houston finally regains contact with Apollo 8 as she clears the backside of the Moon. For some reason, the emotion of that moment gets to me, and I actually well up a little ... each and every time my daughter requests the song. I can't play it off as something else; it's not even dusty in my house.
So let this be a lesson to you: beware of recommendations from podcasts. Thank you, Brady Haran, for all of the unnecessarily expended emotions these past few days.
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| A nearly photorealistic rendition of Apollo 8 going behind the Moon. |
