Beethoven's Ninth in Zero Gravity
When the Space Shuttle mission STS-120 lifted off yesterday morning, it had in its payload a page from the conducting score of Beethoven's Ninth -- specifically the choral finale, "Ode to Joy" -- owned and signed by Cincinnati's celebrity maestro James Levine. Levine and members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra autographed the page for Astronaut Stephanie Wilson, a Pittsfield, Mass., native.
The orchestra says she once worked at a store at Tanglewood, summer home of the BSO, which performs the "Ode to Joy" there annually. The astronaut will present it back to Levine and the BSO after her 14-day mission in space.
Ironically, the main mission this time is to deliver a new module to the International Space Station, named "Harmony."
Visit NASA.gov for the latest updates, to see video or view images of the California wildfires from space.
Photo: NASA
posted by Janelle Gelfand at 8:14 PM
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