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30 Seconds to Mars launches song with gravity-free spin on ISS via @thehive

30 Seconds to Mars launches song with gravity-free spin on ISS

March 18, 2013 | 11:34 a.m.

Rock band 30 Seconds to Mars has launched its new single, “Up in the Air,” in a memorable way — they sent a CD to the International Space Station.  On Monday, they got to watch their CD spinning weightlessly through the air on the ISS.

“That’s a moment that we’ll never forget right there,” said frontman Jared Leto. “Thank you so much for spinning that around.”

Leto and Mars bandmates Shannon Leto (Jared’s brother) and Tomo Milicevic were at Mission Control in Houston on Monday, where they were piped in to the ISS and spoke with U.S. astronaut Tom Marshburn.  The band’s single is released Tuesday, and their new album, “Love Lust Faith + Dreams,” will be out May 21.

“Do you ever listen to music up there?” Jared Leto asked Marshburn.

“I do, during workouts,” he said and noted that the space station’s Canadian commander, Chris Hadfield, is a musician and had been playing and recording music at the station. “Music is a very much a part of our lives up here.”

Besides Hadfield and Marshburn, the space station’s Expedition 35 crew includes Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko. The three men began their space station duty in December and are set to return home in May.  In the video above Marshburn describes a typical day at the space station.

Leto asked Marshburn about his most memorable moments in space and aboard the ISS.

“There are two … 20 years from now I’ll still be thinking about,” Marshburn said. “One was my last few seconds on my spacewalk.” Marshburn had been on his way to the space station, he said, when he went on the space walk. “Looking down between my feet at Earth,” he said, “that was a spectacularly beautiful moment. I didn’t know if it would be the last spacewalk I’d ever do and as it turns out it probably was.” He said he’d also remember looking down on a lightning storm from above.  He and colleagues watched “the greens and blues and yellow and oranges in the lightning…. It was just breathtaking.”

He said he’d also remember the beauty from his perch in space of the aurora borealis and a shooting star.

Leto passed on a question from a Twitter user: If you could live in space or on Earth, which would it be?

“I spent my whole life being curious about space,” he said, “but as wonderful as it is up here … we look back at the Earth and we fall in love with the Earth again.”

– Amy Hubbard | @AmyTheHub

( credits: http://herocomplex.latimes.com/science-2/30-seconds-to-mars-iss/ )

@30SECONDSTOMARS On Up In The Air: it’s a Brand New Beginning by @kroq

Thirty Seconds To Mars’ Jared Leto On ‘Up In The Air’: “It’s A Brand New Beginning”

“This album is a completely new direction. It’s more than even an evolution, it’s a brand new beginning.”

March 18, 2013 10:01 AM

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As promised, Thirty Seconds to Mars debuted their new single “Up in the Air” from space this morning (March 18), announcing that the band’s new album, out May21, will be entitledLove Lust Faith + Dreams.

The band also revealed the album’s cover art, which features “Isonicotinic Acid Ethyl Ester” (2010 – 2011), a piece by world famous artist, Damien Hirst from his Spot Paintings series.

Jared and Shannon Leto, along with guitarist Tomo Miličević phoned KROQ morning show hosts Kevin & Bean from Mission Control at Johnson Space Center in Houston, where later today they’ll be chatting with astronauts and fans via the band’svyrt.com site and NASA’s website.

“My brother and I, our grandfather was in the Air Force and FAA so aviation was always a big part of our lives,” Jared Leto said about the decision to premiere the song from space. “We used to come visit him in Houston and always used to drive by NASA, so there’s a bit of a history there.”

To further cement the importance of today’s mission, Annise D. Parker, Mayor of the City of Houston, has proclaimed today Thirty Seconds to Mars Day.

International Space Station (Courtesy NASA)

“We thought it’s a great beginning to a long conversation that we’re going to be having with this album,” Leto told Kevin & Bean about “Up in the Air.”

“It’s a nice way to start things off. It’s got a lot of energy. This is a brand new experience for us,” the singer continued. “This album is a completely new direction. It’s more than even an evolution, it’s a brand new beginning.”

He added, “It also feels like it could have been something off our first album in a way.”

When asked if the album’s title, Love Lust Faith + Dreams, addressed the themes on the record, Leto joked, “It’s none of your business,” going on to add, “I think those four words all mean something very special to us. They are themes that come up repeatedly in the album. Each of those words is used at least once in every single song on the album.”

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Check out the complete tracklist and cover for Love Lust Faith + Dreams below.

Track Listing – LOVE LUST FAITH + DREAMS

1. Birth
2. Conquistador
3. Up In The Air
4. City Of Angels
5. The Race
6. End Of All Days
7. Pyres Of Varanasi
8. Bright Lights
9. Do Or Die
10. Convergence
11. Northern Lights
12. Depuis Le Début

Fans can pre-order LOVE LUST FAITH + DREAMS now via iTunes.

( credits: http://kroq.cbslocal.com/2013/03/18/thirty-seconds-to-mars-jared-leto-on-up-in-the-air-its-a-brand-new-beginning/ )

 

Jared Leto by Nasa Social [3/1/13]

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