If anything breaks the Internet today, we hope it's this: NASA just released a new video parody of Meaghan Trainor's "All About That Bass."
The NASA version titled "All About That Space," could arguably be the better version of the song, at least for space nerds. It is also the result of what happens when NASA lets its Pathways Interns at its Johnson Space Center go nuts in one of their facilities.
Well done, interns.
NASA created the video to keep interest up about Orion's first test flight. Considering that Orion, which the agency designed for manned deep space travel, will eventually take us to Mars, that's definitely something to sing and dance about. So yes, it's time "to bring rockets back." But they're not just celebrating rockets, they're celebrating people in spacecrafts launched by rockets. NASA is finally focused on manned space exploration again.
Most impressively, this video showcases several of NASA's women interns. Considering that there's a scarcity of women in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields, this signifies progress.
NASA has every reason to celebrate. After the December 5th test launch and flight of the Orion spacecraft, the first man-intended space vehicle created by the agency since the space shuttle, a new era of manned space exploration began as NASA started on its pathway to Mars.
Although Orion's first launch was delayed by a day, due to high winds, a boat in the launch area and some minor problems with its rocket, when it did take to the skies, its first flight experience went perfectly. After launching, Orion spent 4 ½ hours in Earth's orbit, traveling farther than any such vehicle since the last Apollo mission in the 1970s, and then came back to Earth, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean, only about a mile from its intended target. From there, it was recovered by a U.S. Navy team.
"Today was a great day for America," says Orion's Flight Director Mike Sarafin while at Mission Control in Houston. "While this mission was unmanned, we were all aboard Orion."
Apparently, these interns feel the same way.
Now if only we could get a digital download of this song. Because you're sure to be singing it the rest of the day.
[Photo Credit: NASA]
