Consider Dragons Have Landed Their First Music at the Moon

Ubiquitous rockers Consider Dragons have prolonged their succeed in even additional, with their song formally touching down on earth’s moon.

Closing month, it used to be published that bold house startup Lonestar Information Holdings used to be making plans a rocket release to land the primary information heart at the moon. If the release used to be a luck, then one among its first orders of industrial used to be to transmit a track again to earth, with Consider Dragons’ Starfield theme “Kids of the Earth” selected because the fortunate observe.

“Our objective is to encourage the following technology of children to be eager about the way forward for house and generation, which is why we selected ‘Kids of the Sky’ as the primary track in historical past to be broadcast from the Moon,” Lonestar investor Ryan Micheletti stated in a remark on the time.

Particularly, the plan to place song at the moon isn’t precisely a brand new one. Simply remaining 12 months, the Odysseus craft landed at the moon, bringing with it digitized recordings of musical icons corresponding to Elvis Presley, Marvin Gaye, Santana, Jimi Hendrix, Chuck Berry, Sly & the Circle of relatives Stone, Bob Marley, Janis Joplin, The Who and plenty of extra. Alternatively, the objective of broadcasting song again to earth from the moon used to be set to be a primary time incidence.

The Athena spacecraft used to be introduced on Feb. 26 with a deliberate touchdown date of March 6. Upon preliminary information of the landing, Inon Zur (who composed “Kids of the Earth” with Consider Dragons), took to social media to precise his gratitude. “Luck, we’re at the Moon!” he wrote. “Following Athena’s landing at the lunar floor, our pals at Lonestar effectively transmitted ‘Kids of the Sky’ track and lyrics to their information heart at the Moon. The track will now be at the Moon…without end!!”

Alternatively, on Friday (March 7), it used to be reported that the Athena lander (constructed by means of Texas corporate Intuitive Machines), did certainly land at the moon the day prior, albeit on its facet and 820 toes in need of its meant goal. The outcome used to be in large part the similar because the Odysseus’ remaining 12 months, the place a troublesome touchdown compromised a touchdown leg and led to an early finish to the undertaking. 

In a similar fashion, Intuitive Machines have since mentioned the newest undertaking has formally come to an finish because of the failed touchdown. “The undertaking has concluded and groups are proceeding to evaluate the knowledge gathered during the undertaking,” the corporate stated in a remark.

Because of the failed touchdown and the untimely finish to the undertaking, Consider Dragons have in the end now not controlled to procure the consideration of getting the primary track broadcast to earth from the moon. In the meantime, Intuitive Machines CEO Steve Altemus has claimed the corporate might grasp off on makes an attempt for a 3rd lunar touchdown which is these days scheduled for 2026.