$23. Robert Olen Butler uses the word "spaceman" to describe the hero of his new novel, and one of his characters uses the term "googly-eyed alien," but I'd call him an extraterrestrial.
The video went viral on the internet and propelled the singing spaceman to worldwide attention.
In a similar vein, Tim Dirks ends his synopsis saying "The cyclical evolution from ape to man to spaceman to angel-starchild-superman is complete".
In fact, you could barely move for great bands that owed VU a massive debt – from the Jesus And Mary Chain, to Loop, to Spacemen 3, to Pixies, to Mercury Rev, to Flaming Lips, to Skullflower, to My Bloody Valentine, to Sonic Youth, to The Wedding Present, to The Blue Aeroplanes, to… well, you get the idea.
In fact, you could barely move without hitting a great band that owed VU a massive debt from the Jesus And Mary Chain, to Loop, to Spacemen 3, to Pixies, to Mercury Rev, to Flaming Lips, to Skullflower, to My Bloody Valentine, to Sonic Youth, to The Wedding Present, to The Blue Aeroplanes, to… well, you get the idea.
The entertainment tycoon has said he will try to persuade his fellow spacemen to don red clown noses.
The New York Times reported: "The astronauts were the first American spacemen to be killed on the job and ironically, died while on the ground.
The first, Gagarin, is rather sweetly taken by Dyfan Dwyfor, playing the most prominent of the spacemen to fall under the barking, bullish command of Sergey Korolyov, the gulag survivor who was the brains behind the mission.
Smith House estimates for the items in Mr. Rosen's collections range from $100 for plastic spacemen to $12,000 for a war boat steered by a robot crouched behind torpedoes.
Yet even when a Boyle narrative has imploded, he will still leave at least one extraordinary, original image burnt on to audience retinas - here, a tiny spaceman floating to the edge of darkness, striking a ray of light and vaporising.
The first two spacemen go to the Moon to collect a few rocks and fly back to Earth!
