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The crew of Space Shuttle Atlantis were this morning greeted by R.E.M's Michael Stipe, who delivered a vocal snippet of the band's Man on the Moon, followed by a quick message. Stipe said: “Good morning, Atlantis. This is Michael Stipe from R.E.M. We wish you much success on your mission and thank all the women and men at NASA …

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  1. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
    Windows

    Ok, this is getting like a Lady Di goodbye

    Can we move on now?

    Actually, like, get useful robots into space instead of a glorified truck out of a Mad Max movie?

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Joke

    Fake flick!

    Space films are only real if people are placed in random positions and drifting about.

    1. Captain TickTock
      Windows

      Just like...

      ..the Windows 98 Space screensaver?

      Windows, it's enough to drive you to drink.

  3. Blake St. Claire
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    how trite

    Ugh. What's next, Bowie singing Major Tom?

    What's NASA got, some thirteen year old dreaming this stuff up?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      you beat me to it.

      I still think it would be funny if they were awakened by HAL.

      1. Captain TickTock
        Terminator

        I'm sorry Dave..

        I can't let you do that...

        Would you go outside with the CanadArm after a wake up call like that?

    2. Joe Cooper

      Novelty

      Time for some novelty!

      Have James Earl Jones doing a reading of Son of Strolka (Youtube it).

  4. Anonymous Coward
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    Agh

    I was just about to say: Well thank God they didn't play Elton John, but then just thought I'd check the second video in case..... "We're honoured" etc.

    Pah.

    His old stuff was great, but he should have retired the day before that taxi crash.

    1. NogginTheNog
      WTF?

      When?

      What taxi crash??

      Agreed his modern stuff is terrible though, especially the way he sings nowadays!

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        taxi

        The one where the woman died in the hole on the ground in france - all right, it probably wasn't a taxi as such - I'm not going to name names because it's all become so dull dull dull.

        1. NogginTheNog
          Facepalm

          Oh THAT crash!

          The blonde woman, known for her frocks, amongst other things..?

  5. G C M Roberts
    Coat

    What's next?

    As there seems to be a recurring theme developing I would suggest

    Babylon Zoo - Spaceman

    I'll get my spacecoat

  6. Marvin the Martian
    Meh

    Why not Lou Reed?

    "Starmen/ You can all go straight to the devil/ Starmen..."

  7. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Err...

    So, they've gone with a song about a cocaine addict and a song questioning the moon landings... Great...

    If there is one thing that drives NASA guys up the wall it's moon landing conspiracies.

  8. Red Bren
    Unhappy

    Wrong song choice

    Humans haven't set foot on the moon in my lifetime and I'm sad to say I don't expect them to.

  9. Anonymous Coward
    Alien

    Insect overlords

    They need to get James Taylor to do 'Fire and Rain'.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Space_Homer

  10. andy mcandy
    Happy

    what they really need...

    is james taylor to sing "youve got a friend", whilst the astronauts eat zero gravity crisps.

    i, for one, welcome our new deep space homer overlords ;)

  11. Anonymous Coward
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    They should be woken by...

    The Pistol's Pretty Vacant...

  12. disgruntled yank

    If only

    "In Outer Space, Nobody Can Hear You Sing"

  13. Paul Johnston
    Happy

    Another candidate

    Don't dislike REM but prefer "Man on the Moon" by Sugar!

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