Music

Watch Peter Frampton and NASA hook up for a live collaboration

by Nicole Villeneuve

Because I guess when you’re Peter Frampton you get to do whatever you want.

Last Friday night, at a show at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco, Gabriel beamed in astronaut Ron Garan for a live video chat. Garan’s presently out there somewhere on the International Space Station. “I got this idea of having Ron being visually and audibly with us on a screen from space on a screen behind us on stage. Ron and NASA were really into the idea,” Frampton says via his YouTube page. “Thanks to Ron Garan and NASA for making this a moment I will never forget.”

The two chatted about the earth and environmental responsibility and decided that they should go for a coffee once Garan gets back. Then Frampton and his band played, appropriately, “Float,” as Garan …floated away. You can watch the video above.