Being a longtime Echo & Bunnymen fan, I think this is pretty damn cool! Looking out the window of your spaceship and hearing the lyrics, "Under blue moon I saw you..." Oh man, that would totally bring tears to my eyes.


[quote]ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN’S OCEAN RAIN TO GET BLASTED INTO SPACE

NASA Astronaut to Take All-Time Fave Album to the International Space Station **

New York, NY, May 13 – Move over Star Trek. Echo & The Bunnymen’s mighty 1984 album Ocean Rain will boldly go to the International Space Station on June 13th courtesy of astronaut Colonel Timothy L. Korpa.

Korpa, who has been a Bunnymen fanatic since his teens recently contacted the band via their website about his upcoming three-month mission on the ISS. Though Ocean Rain is Korpa’s favorite, he gave the choice to the band to pick which of their albums they would like him to take on his mission, saying that he would snap photos in space with the album and crew of the ISS and give the album back to the band as a souvenir when he returns to Earth. The Bunnymen ecstatically shipped out to Korpa an autographed copy of Ocean Rain right away.

“What an honour,â€

This is just so cool.

Although I am imagining being Ian McCulloch, and thinking about how overwhelming it would be to have my music played like this.

Yeah.