In 2014, Brad Paisley sent the song 'American Flag on the Moon' via tweet to astronaut Reid Wiseman.Įditor's Note: senior producer Steve Spaleta contributed to this report.įollow us, Facebook or Google+. 'Could this be the longest-distance selfie ever?' he tweeted.īrooks isn't the first country star to sing to the astronauts on the orbiting outpost. In the video, Fischer can be seen singing along.īrooks also took selfies with the two astronauts. 'But it's the heart you put into every performance and the soul that you put into those songs that make them so impactful.'īrooks and Yearwood then went through a few verses of 'The River,' singing into the telephone that links voice communications between the ground and the space station. 'I think that you have so many great songs and so many great messages,' Fischer told Brooks.
It was released in September 1998 as the second single and title track from Yearwoods album Where Your Road Leads. Fischer confessed to being a huge fan of Brooks, noting that Brooks' song 'The River' has been 'pretty much my anthem for the last three decades.' The song was even played for Fischer while he was waiting on the launch pad to travel to the space station, he said. Where Your Road Leads (song) ' Where Your Road Leads ' is a song written by Victoria Shaw and Desmond Child, and recorded by American country music artists Trisha Yearwood and Garth Brooks. Brooks and Yearwood visited the Johnson Space Center to talk to the astronauts from mission control.