will.i.am recently had a solar-system first event when he broadcast his new single from Mars. Reaching for the Stars was broadcast from the Curiosity rover as part of the NASA educational event for students at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.
“Members of the team that successfully landed the rover on Mars earlier this month will explain to students the mission and the technology behind the song’s interplanetary transmission,” said an announcement by NASA. “will.i.am’s i.am.angel Foundation, in partnership with Discovery Education of Silver Spring, Maryland., a provider of digital resources to kindergarten through grade 12 classrooms, will announce a new science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics initiative featuring NASA assets such as the Mars Curiosity Rover.”
Source: Christian Science Monitor
