Aug 27, 2010

Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa gov RELEASE: 10-199

U2 AND NASA CREATE VIDEO TO CELEBRATE COLLABORATION

WASHINGTON -- NASA and U2 released a commemorative video highlighting a year's worth of collaboration in space and on the Irish rock band's 360 Degree tour

U2 approached NASA in 2009 with an idea to include a dialogue between the band and the crew of the International Space Station during U2's world tour The astronauts of Expedition 20, the crew then living aboard the space station, agreed to participate and spoke with U2 several times before recording a video segment the band incorporated into its concerts

The space station crew members were Michael Barratt of NASA, Frank De Winne of the European Space Agency, Bob Thirsk of the Canadian Space Agency, Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and Gennady Padalka and Roman Romanenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency

"Working with U2 is atypical for NASA," said Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA's associate administrator for Space Operations "By combining their world tour with the space station's out-of-this-world mission, more people -- and different people than our normal target audiences -- learned about the International Space Station and the important work we are doing in orbit "

Speaking onstage in Houston last year, Bono said, "These are the very best people in the world -- dedicated to figuring how our little planet exists in this cosmos we call home " De Winne, and Romanenko attended U2's performance in Moscow on Wednesday and met with the band before the show

U2 com created the video and presented it to NASA to document the collaboration between the band and the space agency

To view the video, visit:

http://www nasa gov/multimedia/videogallery/index html?media_id=17779038

or

http://www nasa gov/hd

or

http://www u2 com

For more information about the station, visit:

http://www nasa gov/station

For more information about NASA, visit:

http://www nasa gov

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