I am remembering the Challenger Disaster. I was living and working right next door to NASA in January 1986 and helped process the emergency psych patients that avalanched our hospital in response to the event. Among them were engineers from NASA, members of astronaut's families and others who lived in the same small community.
In April 86 Jean Michel Jarre did his Rendezvous Houston concert, "a live performance... amidst the skyscrapers of downtown Houston...For a period of time, it held a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest outdoor "rock concert" in history... is remembered for being the concert which celebrated the astronauts of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster...
One of Jarre's friends, astronaut Ron McNair, had been killed in the disaster. He was supposed to play the saxophone from space during the track "Last Rendez-Vous"; his substitute for the concert was Houston native Kirk Whalum"--wikipedia
performance clip on right of page
documentary
some of the performance
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