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Bruce McCandless II understood this a while back, ever since he was immortalized in a photograph as the first person to perform an untethered spacewalk in 1984. The image drums up all our fears of helplessness into a minute figure looking back at the space ship 325 feet away.
Quick to protect his image and pounce upon ways to poke some cash from a lucky coincidence, McCandless has taken the British musician to court and claims the singer misappropriated his image―even though nothing about his person’s visible in the shot. It’s similar to what Vampire Weekend experienced, when the blonde subject of the the “Contra” controversy sued the band.
Astronauts are sensitive people.
For testing space jetpacks in the place of nightmares, Bruce McCandless II is an American hero. But while he doesn’t own the rights to the specific photo, he believes his “persona” was used by Dido to help sell CDs. For this,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he wants a piece of the pie, and somewhere at home he sits in a chair in a living room surrounded by momentos that remind him that his spacewalk remains the most significant thing he’s ever done, and that’s all he has to live on. And that’s not so bad.
Already bored with Earth, most large-headed children turn to the heavens and dream of commuting to work in spacesuits. Other kiddos turn their attention towards music and the idea of developing a voice that could bring the most divided of playgrounds together with a pop song. But, as we all come to learn, those aspirations tend to peter out with time.
Just remember how Lisa Novak‘s romantic misadventure in 2007 overshadowed more than 12 days logged in space,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], solidifying her as the butt-end for crazy astronaut jokes: “I thought the only space traveler who wore a wig and an adult diaper was William Shatner.” ― David Letterman.
For one, the job requirement to become an astronaut or a world-famous musician is a certain type of good genes,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], thereby thinning the herd dramatically. Also, your career highlights will be a flash in the pan that sums up the whole worth of what you strove for―and this typically happens at a relatively young age.
Similarly, think of old Chubby Checker, who supports himself in later life with a line of snack food, The Last Twist, Inc., that references his only memorable song.
Well, that image became the cover art for Dido’s album “Safe Trip Home,” which, as her work tends to, sold like gangbusters to practicers of yoga and consumers of chai tea.
Legacy is often all that’s left after astronauts and pop stars get sent out to pasture, so they try to keep the candle burning as long and vividly as possible. Because once they’re past their prime, what’s really left?