NASA Celebrates Its Comet Hit - With America's Own Comets!

NASA Celebrates Its Comet Hit - With America's Own Comets!

The World's Oldest Rock Band Salutes NASA Hitting One of the Universe's Oldest Comets - With a Rock Concert and Music Video!

HOLLYWOOD, Calif., July 05 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA and JPL will celebrate the success of its "Deep Impact" collision with a comet (age approximately 4.5 billion years) with a special concert by the World's Oldest Rock Band (cumulative age 381 years!) -- The Comets. (Event produced by the non-profit "Rock Is Fifty!" Committee.)

The Comets are the five surviving members (now in their 70's & 80's) of the original lineup of Bill Haley & The Comets -- considered among the leading pioneers of rock 'n' roll. The group -- formed in 1952 -- was famous for "Rock Around The Clock," "Shake, Rattle And Roll," "See You Later Alligator" and many other early rock hits.

By coincidence NASA's hit with a comet comes on the 50th anniversary of the band's "Rock Around The Clock" becoming the first-ever rock 'n' roll song to top the charts -- an event that historians regard as the "Deep Impact" that started the rock era. (Details of this week's massive celebrations in Hollywood: http://www.rockisfifty.com/)

So NASA will present The Comets performing a special concert for the "Deep Impact" team. It takes place at 12 p.m. TODAY (Tuesday July 5th) at the NASA/JPL's Pasadena facility.

The five Comets have an average age of 76 (their guitarist is 84!) but point out "we're still a bit younger than that Comet they just hit!"

The group offered to perform free for the NASA team if a celebration was appropriate.

The group has also collaborated on another celebration of "Deep Impact." It has helped create a new music video blending footage of the band performing "Rock Around The Clock" (in both 1955 and 2005) -- together with historic photos and imagery from the "Deep Impact" mission including the latest images of the comet collision. The video will be seen throughout the world on the websites of NASA and JPL.

And they are even offering their services for NASA's next manned space mission! "We were the first rock 'n' roll band on Earth. Now we'd like to be the first rock 'n' roll band in space!"

CONSUMER WEBSITES http://www.thecomets.com/http://www.rockisfifty.com/

http://www.RockIsFifty.com/media

Source: Rock Is Fifty!

CONTACT: Martin Lewis, +1-323-654-7755, or mobile, +1-323-972-7755, martin@springtime.biz, for "Rock is Fifty" and The Comets; or Veronica McGregor, +1-818-354-9452, veronica.mcgregor@jpl.nasa.gov, for NASA and JPL

Web site: http://www.thecomets.com/

Web site: http://www.rockisfifty.com/

NOTE TO EDITORS: The following are: MEDIA RESOURCE WEBSITES (For media only. NOT for publication) See The Comets "Deep Impact" video! http://www.TheComets.com/media

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