<div><span title="Expedition 23 Makes Rounds Before Launch">US astronaut Tracy Dyson singing Brooks' "The River," suited up in a spacesuit (with the helmet off singing into a microphone) shortly before launch, was on NASA television off satellite Directtv, but I have not been able to locate a source for this performance on the Internet, not even on NASA's YouTube offerings. Maybe someone else can locate an Internet source. I found the performance in the unique situation involved rather compelling. A picture of her singing before launch is at the following website:</span></div>
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<div><span title="Expedition 23 Makes Rounds Before Launch"><a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-19514_3-10472226-239.html">http://news.cnet.com/8301-19514_3-10472226-239.html</a></span></div>
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<div><span title="Expedition 23 Makes Rounds Before Launch">Astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson sings a Garth Brooks song - "The River" - to her husband before heading to the launch pad. Soyuz commander Alexander Skvortsov, center, and flight engineer Mikhail Kornienko look on.</span></div>
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<div>A high-definition view of Expedition 23 Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov and Flight Engineers Mikhail Kornienko and Tracy Caldwell Dyson launching on the Russian Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft on April 2, 2010 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to begin a two-day journey to the International Space Station.</div>
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