"Flying to the Moon" - Cork man's song for outer space

Cork's €7.5 million astronomical observatory and interactive visitors' centre at the city's landmark Blackrock Castle was inaugurated on November 19, 2007.

The Elizabethan Castle - established four hundred years ago on the banks of the River Lee to protect against North African pirates - now houses Ireland's most up-to-date astronomical research facility and a team of scientists working on new technologies for searching for planets around distant stars.

As part of the celebrations, Blackrock Castle Observatory compiled video footage from outer space to honour astronaut Dan Tani - who is married to Cork woman Jane Egan and who is currently living and working aboard the International Space Station. Dan Tani's mother-in-law and father-in-law, Mary and Larry Egan, were present at the castle for the event.

This clip, from an earlier flight, features Kinsale legend Ollie O'Regan singing a song he wrote specially for Kinsale's favourite astronaut.

NOTE: the video is from a more recent flight.

Images and audio: NASA

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Science & Technology

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• aviation
• space
• bco
• cork
• tani
• iss
• blackrock
• song
• kinsale

[MegaOysters]

Get a Grip Negative People Out There, Its just some Harmless Fun, People are so negative on Little Things, Im sure there is much more on utube thats worth whinging at & You should keep nice & Busy slagging the world off......Go get a hobby & stay off Utube If you want to be idiots !!!!

[domdeebegger]

in the name of f,....k b stick to the day job with so called singing like this

[nilbud]

Disgusting

[Docksideofmoon]

Great!

[Conor433]

Nice song and nice too see it came from Eire :)