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Friday, July 15, 2011

R.E.M. wakes up the astronauts

This video from the NASA web page is pretty cool:


http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?collection_id=14554&media_id=101261101
Posted by Jim Desmond at 7/15/2011
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