Posted Tuesday, June 26, 2012 — 1:53 PM

Watch “The Mighty Sky,” a special event at Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory featuring a presentation by Leland Melvin, NASA associate administrator for education and two-time Space Shuttle astronaut, with music from an upcoming album of the same name performed by Nashville-based singer-songwriter Beth Nielsen Chapman and Nashville-based musicians The Long Players. Chapman, songwriter Annie Roboff and Dyer Observatory director Rocky Alvey collaborated on the album.

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