US band to launch new song into space
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Thirty Seconds to Mars band members Tomo Milicebic, Jared Leto and Shannon Leto. Picture: Justin Lloyd
Source: News Limited
AMERICAN rockers Thirty Seconds To Mars will get a little closer to their namesake when new single Up In The Air is launched into space tomorrow.
Jared Leto and his bandmates will be at the Cape Canaveral base in Florida when a Falcon 9 rocket laden with scientific equipment – and the first copy of their song – blasts off for the International Space Station.
The launch at 2.10am (AEDT) will be broadcast on NASA’s website.
Fans have long been anticipating the band’s fourth record, the follow-up to 2009′s This is War, with #MARSisComing trending in the countdown to the lift-off.
But they won’t be able to hear the first single until March 18 when Leto and his bandmates head to Mission Control Houston for a Q&A with ISS astronaut Tom Marshburn, whose review of Up In the Air should prove interesting.
Why are Thirty Seconds To Mars getting the out-of-this-world treatment from NASA? Only the heavens know.
