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Tracklist
Challenger
part 1
part 2
part 3
Leave-taking Requiem
music by Dmitry Gulyutin,
arrangement and performance by Andrey Klimkovsky
Finally The Little Piece The new space mission
part 1
part 2
Fullmoon Night
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release data:
p & c 1998 NEANE Records
catalog number : NR-0102
release type : album release date : 1998, February, 6 duration :
59' 40"
genre : electronic, new age, ambient
participants:
Andrey Klimkovsky — composer, arranger, performer, author of the concept, performance on synthesizers;
Dmitry Gulyutin — author of the composition «Requiem»;
Vladislav Karpov — sound engineer.
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Shuttle history
November 25, 1975 — Construction of a full-scale test vehicle begins;
January 25, 1979 — the shuttle gets its own name — «Challenger»;
June 30, 1982 — assembly ends;
April 04 — 09, 1983 — the first flight. Four astronauts on board there are.
In total there were 9 flights with a total duration of 1495 hours 56 minutes 47 seconds or more than 62 days. The total distance covered was 41,672,900 km, or 978 orbits around the Earth.
The last flight on January 28, 1986 did not exceed 74 seconds and ended in disaster. All seven crew members were lost.
The last crew of the «Challenger» space shuttle
Francis Scobie — Commander of the ship (2nd flight),
Michael Smith — pilot (1st flight),
Judith Resnik — Flight Specialist (2nd flight),
Allison Onizika — Flight Specialist (2nd flight),
Ronald McNair — Flight Specialist (2nd flight),
Gregory Jarvis — Payload Specialist (1st flight),
Sharon Christa McAuliffe — School teacher (1st flight).
album annotation
A clear sunny day on January 28, 1986 did not bode sad anithing. The gleaming space shuttle Challenger froze at the launch pad, awaiting the command "Start!" The happy crew — seven astronauts — were heading along the concrete slabs of the cosmodrome to the ship, on a flight that promised to be historic. Among them is a simple school teacher Christa McAuliffe. She has earned the right to be the first of earthlings to teach a lesson directly from space, to tell all the children of America, and maybe all the children of the Earth, about how beautiful our planet is, how great the Universe is, about how to safe this dear grain of sand floating in vast expanses of the Ocean of the Universe ... But this lesson did not take place. At the 73rd second of the flight, in front of everyone who accompanied the crew into the sky, an explosion took place, engulfing the ship and the crew ...
album creation history
The accident of the Challenger spacecraft and the tragic fate of all the crew members strongly influenced the work of Andrey Klimkovsky. The first melodies appeared the next day after the takeoff accident. But the last piece was written only 10 years later. All these years, the composer has been finalizing the melodies, polishing the arrangements, and in 1996 for the first time recorded a complete album. Almost no one heard this recording, because since a year later the musician completely replays the album, and at the very beginning of 1998 the album was presented at the Journalists Central House, at which representatives of NASA, as well as employees of the leading space centers of Russia, were present. The presentation date almost coincided with the 12th anniversary of the tragic event.
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