On February 1st, 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia broke apart while reentering the earth’s atmosphere. John Roderick, singer and songwriter of The Long Winters, wrote “The Commander Thinks Aloud” about that fateful moment. This episode was made from an interview I did with John Roderick in front of a live audience in Seattle, where we discussed how and why he made this song.
Buy “The Commander Thinks Aloud” on iTunes.
Read the profile of the commander and the six other crew members at NASA’s page dedicated to the Columbia. The seven of them were of seven different religious faiths.
For a transcript of this episode, click here.
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John Roderick also makes podcasts: Roderick on the Line with Merlin Mann, and Roderick’s Rendezvous.
