COLUMBUS, Ohio ( WCMH ) — The Best Damn Band In The Land reached for the stars during Saturday’s halftime show and honored the men and women from Ohio that have been beyond Earth.
The Ohio State marching band’s third halftime show of the 2024 season honored Ohio’s NASA astronauts in “The Road to the Moon Goes Through Ohio.” The Buckeye State has dozens of men and women who were NASA astronauts, among them being the first man to walk on the moon Neil Armstrong and the first man to orbit Earth, former Sen. John Glenn.
During the break in the Buckeyes game against Marshall, TBDBITL played iconic space-themed songs from the main theme of the film “Apollo 13” to Frank Sinatra’s “Fly Me to the Moon”, coupling those tunes with formations of spaceships and the stars. You can watch the halftime show using the video player above.
The band welcomed home two Ohio State graduates who now work for NASA for the out-of-this-world halftime show. “It’s a lot of fun. I mean we’ve got the best damn band in the land and just to see them perform is really exciting,” said NASA Flight Director Jeff Radigan.