NASA and will.i.am Bring Music Back From Mars: Curiosity Rover
Successfully Delivers First Music and Song “Reach For the Stars
(Mars Edition)” Back to Earth PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 28, 2012
/PRNewswire/ — Earlier today during an education program hosted
by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), 53 high school students
from the i.am College Track Center in Boyle Heights/East Los
Angeles, VIP guests and NASA and JPL officials, and Curiosity
mission members paid tribute to the legacy of Astronaut Neil
Armstrong, the first man to walk on the Moon. During the event,
the group also celebrated the successful delivery of the world’s
first song from The Red Planet, Mars, back to Earth.
Concurrently, will.i.am’s i.am.angel Foundation and Discovery
Education, the leading provider of digital resources to K-12
classrooms proven to impact student achievement, announced a
groundbreaking youth engagement initiative to bring STEAM
(science, technology, engineering, art and math) education to
life for millions of students nation