In the "Why was I not told about this earlier" department

[dianeduane]

From an article about the deploying of the International Space Station's new solar panels: one astronaut is mentioned...

...Christopher J. Ferguson, another Navy captain, who is on his first shuttle mission and is a member of the all-astronaut rock band Max Q.

The all-astronaut rock band??!!

Where do they play? Where can a geek(ette) buy their CDs? Someone must know...

Comments

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

(forget my last comment, that was a different band)

Well, they've got an album on Amazon.com

Link: http://www.amazon.com/Max-Q-Reverse-Engineers/dp/B00067W2OE

[azurelunatic]

Nope. That band is the Reverse Engineers. Alas.

http://history.nasa.gov/wakeup%20calls.pdf says that they don't have an album, but they do play NASA functions.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Bummer. Ah, well.

[handworn.livejournal.com]

Oh, but they ought to be called The Reverse Engineers. Like that all-writer band called The Rock Bottom Remainders.

[azurelunatic]

Who'd have thought it was such a popular band name?

[ckd]

I'd heard of them back in 1987 or so, because "Pinky" Nelson was getting all sorts of press coverage as one of the crew members for STS-26. I didn't realize they were still around.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Well, this is interesting news indeed!

You'd think a band like this would've had an album or two out by now, wouldn't you?

[kaseido.livejournal.com]

You may want to check out these guys (http://www.marssociety.org/convention/2003/extreme.asp) - great story, *really* fun album!

[robotech-master.livejournal.com]

Here's the Wikipedia page about MaxQ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Q_(Astronaut_band)), and an article about them (http://airtranmagazine.com/contents/2005/04/spotlight-astronaut-band/) from its references.

[trdsf.livejournal.com]

The better question is: do they need a bass player? I can suit up to go any time! :D

[batyatoon]

... you know, I don't even need to hear them play, I am happier purely for knowing they exist.

*beams*

[tyleet1047.livejournal.com]

On a note that has nothing at all to do with all-astronaut rock bands, I wanted to make sure you knew that there is a Teen Titans TV Movie (I somehow missed the news on this until just now). It's airing on Cartoon Network tonight, probably available on the net otherwise. Just FYI!