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After eight years of searching, NASA has discovered THE PHENOMENAUTS, on their very own home planet. The band was honored with a VIP tour of NASA’s Houston headquarters last week, which included meetings with astronauts, scientists, and hands-on experience with space station parts and training facilities.
The song “Infinite Frontier” (from the band’s brand new full length, For All Mankind) will be brought on board The International Space Station as part of the upcoming STS-124 mission, where it will be played for the crew’s first wake up. Wake-up calls are a long-standing tradition of the NASA program. Each day during the mission, flight controllers in the Mission Control Center will greet the crew with an appropriate musical interlude. The track blends 70′s punk with new-wave, asking “All the way from the bottom of the ocean to the upper atmosphere, there are astronomical possibilities, so why should we stop here?” and demands that we “Press onward!”
THE PHENOMENAUTS met with Mark E. Kelly who will be commanding the STS-124 shuttle mission to deliver the Pressurized Module and robotic arm of the Japanese Experiment Module, known as “Kibo” (hope), to The International Space Station.
Liner notes for the band’s previous album, Re-Entry, state that it is dedicated to the brave men and women of NASA. Now, these scientists are finally aware of their admiration.
THE PHENOMENAUTS have been invited back to NASA’s Houston headquarters for an extended tour and to shoot a music video for the song “Heroes” about the men, women, and animals that lived and died to advance our planet’s space program.
