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Fact #80429

When:

12042011

Short story:

Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull takes part in a duet with American astronaut Colonel Catherine Coleman to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Russian astronaut Yuri Gagarin's first manned space flight in 1961. While the pair play an excerpt from Bouree from Tull's Stand Up album, Anderson is live on stage in Perm, Russia, and Coleman is in orbit around the world aboard the International Space Station.