"NASA Johnson Style" ("Gangnam Style" Parody)

NASA and its astronauts have achieved many great things -- moon landings, the Hubble Telescope, sending Voyager 1 to interstellar space -- but their greatest badge of honor could possibly be the fact that they somehow managed to make a pretty freakin' sweet parody of "Gangnam Style". (Truly turning the impossible into the possible here, folks.)

NASA Johnson put this video out in December of 2012 to spark public interest in the space program. And. It. Rocks. Mike Massimino, veteran of two Space Shuttle missions that serviced Hubble, looks on disapprovingly in the video... but eventually even he breaks down and gets into it. Clay Anderson, Mission Specialist who has 152 days logged aboard the International Space Station, shows us his KILLER dance moves and also three time extra-vehicular activity spacewalker, Tracy Caldwell Dyson, makes several happy cameos.

[Lyrics below]

[Follow Mike Massimino and Clay Anderson on Twitter if you dig their moves.]

"NASA Johnson Style" lyrics: 

NASA Johnson Style

Johnson Style

Welcome to NASA's Johnson Space Center

We are coming in hot so don't burn up as we enter

We do science everyday that affects your daily life

Throw them up for manned space flight

Science everywhere

As we engineer the marvels

That fly though the air 

And take us way beyond earth's levels

Science everywhere 

Because we engineer the marvels

That fly though the air 

Flys us through the air

Control the mission out of Johnson

This is ground, hey!

And this is space, hey!

Tell me Houston what's the problem 

It's okay!

It's okay!

Because there's flight controllers on the job today 

NASA Johnson STYLE!

Johnson STYLE!

NA, NA, NA, NA NASA Johnson STYLE!

Johnson STYLE!

NA, NA, NA, NA NASA Johnson STYLE!

EYYYYYY science daily!

NA, NA, NA, NA, NASA STYLE!

EYYYYYY it's amazing!

NA, NA, NA, NA ey ey ey ey ey ey!!

Orbiting earth, international space station

Where we work and live in space with a crew from several nations

Got Japanese, and Russians, that European charm 

Throw them up, like the Canada Arm

Kicking out research

29k cubic feet, revolves around the earth

Science microgravity, revolves around the earth

Columbus, JEM, and Destiny

Kicking out research

Kicking out research

Train the astronauts at Johnson

To go to space, hey!

To go to space, hey! 

Cause the missions of tomorrow 

Start today, hey!

Start today, hey!

As we engineer the future day by day

NASA Johnson STYLE!

Johnson STYLE!

NA, NA, NA, NA NASA Johnson STYLE!

Johnson STYLE!

NA, NA, NA, NA NASA Johnson STYLE!

EYYYYYY science daily!

NA, NA, NA, NA, NASA STYLE!

EYYYYYY it's amazing!

NA, NA, NA, NA ey ey ey ey ey ey!!

Orion or SLS, MPCV 

We cannot feel the floor, cause the lack gravity

The destinations are an asteroid, mars, or moon 

We are blasting off start the countdown soon

[Sound clip: launch countdown]

EYYYYYY science daily!

NA, NA, NA, NA, NASA STYLE!

EYYYYYY it's amazing!

NA, NA, NA, NA ey ey ey ey ey ey!!

NASA Johnson Style