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How is Willie Nelson connected with the NASA shuttle program?

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Country singer Willie Nelson is usually on the road (again) rather than in space, so how did Willie and U.S. astronaut Alvin Drew end up doing a music video together in Austin, Texas?       


The story appears on Space.com with its article “Willie Nelson's Accidental Astronaut Cameo”.

There you will find the humorous and interesting story about the chance encounter of a country music legend and a NASA astronaut.

Astronaut Drew last flew in space as a mission specialist on the STS-118 mission of the space shuttle Endeavour.

The mission lifted off on August 8, 2007, from the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39A, and landed back at KSC on its Shuttle Landing Facility on August 21, 2007.


The NASA biography of Alvin Drew appears at: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/drew-ba.html.


The official website for Willie Nelson is found at: http://www.willienelson.com/.

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