To Touch the Stars: A Musical Celebration of Space Exploration

To Touch the Stars: A Musical Celebration of Space Exploration

Track Listings

1. Witnesses' Waltz (Kristoph Klover)

2. Big Blue Sky (Stan Clardy)

3. Fire in the Sky (Kristoph Klover)

4. Now's the Time to Touch a Star (Karl Franzen)

5. Hope Eyrie (Julia Ecklar)

6. Surprise! (Gunnar Madsen)

7. The Pioneers of Mars (Karen Linsley)

8. If We Had No Moon (Christine Lavin)

9. I Want to Go To Mars (The Birdwatchers)

10. Star Fire (Julia Ecklar)

11. Others Standing By (Kristoph Klover)

12. The Challenge (Karen Linsley)

13. Dog on the Moon (Garry Novikoff)

14. Queen Isabella (Kristoph Klover)

15. Legends (Julia Ecklar)

16. Dance on the Ceiling (Gunnar Madsen)

Editorial Reviews
Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11 Astronaut
"... I am thrilled by this new collection of original songs...of our great endeavor to reach for the stars."

Product Description
Meridiani Planum, Mars - February 14, 2004

It's another cool, clear Mars morning, and the NASA Rover Opportunity is waking up to the majestic strains of "Pioneers of Mars". This song is from To Touch the Stars, the first-ever anthology CD of music celebrating space exploration. Capturing the attention of space enthusiasts worldwide, To Touch the Stars has garnered rave reviews from virtually every space-related publication on the planet.

The brainchild of best-selling author Dr. Robert Zubrin (The Case For Mars) and Prometheus Music, the project grew from the winning entries in a space songwriting contest sponsored by Zubrin, then director of the National Space Society. Zubrin repeated the contest when he moved on to presidency of the Mars Society, with Pioneers of Mars taking top honors. The anthem is "a touching piece, wonderfully encapsulating both the rewards and risks inherent in outer space travel," says Science Fiction Weekly.

Legendary Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin has endorsed the CD, quoting lyrics from the song "Fire in the Sky" in a nationally televised NBC interview after the Columbia tragedy. The album's sixteen tracks range from scientific to historic, whimsical to moving. It has found fans amongst schoolteachers and their students, planetarium directors, sci-fi fans, aerospace engineers, NASA leaders, and anyone whose heart yearns to break the surly bonds of gravity.

To Touch the Stars has been featured as part of the official Centennial of Flight celebration, created by Congress to promote awareness of the Wright brothers' achievements and the 100th anniversary of powered flight. It placed in the Top 65 most aired albums on the January 2004 folk charts with airplay in the U.S., Canada, and Australia. Yuri's Night parties all over the world - celebrating the anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's first spaceflight - have used the CD as part of the evening's audio entertainment.

To Touch the Stars: A Musical Celebration of Space Exploration,Various Artists,Prometheus Music,Folk Collections,The first-ever anthology disc of songs celebrating space exploration -- as featured on the Discovery Channel, MSNBC, SPACE.com, CBC Radio One, the Seattle Times -- and played on Mars by NASA.

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