Today I learned on Nostr: TIL that in 2001 NASA commissioned boy band Natural to write a song about space in an ...

TIL that in 2001 NASA commissioned boy band Natural to write a song about space in an effort to reach a younger audience. The band was to undergo astronaut training in order to perform in space when astronaut Will McCool, who the band teamed up with, died onboard the Columbia space shuttle in 2003.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/that-time-lou-pearlman-tried-to-send-a-boy-ba…
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