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"The \"Harlem Shake\" even has NASA dancing in Mission Control.\nAfter rocketing to the top of the Billboard charts \u2014 thanks in part to its viral success on YouTube \u2014 the song, \"Harlem Shake\" by Baauer has now been spoofed by employees at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.\nThe video producers put their own NASA-like spin on the hit song.\n\"So you think you're having a nominal countdown when all of a sudden\u2026\" the NASA producers wrote as a teaser when it went live Monday (March 4). \nSEE ALSO: Watch NASA's \"Harlem Shake\" Video\n\nThe 35-second music video begins in a seemingly normal launch control room when a young woman in a spacesuit enters and starts dancing for the camera. When the song picks up, everyone is suddenly dressed in costume and dancing to the song, just as you'd expect in a \"Harlem Shake\" video.\nThe Wallops Flight Facility, based on Wallops Island on the Virginia coast, is the center of NASA's sounding rocket and balloon science programs.\nThe Wallops video spoof comes on the heels of many different videos paying homage to the electronica sensation. The cast from \"The Today Show,\" \"The Simpsons\" and \"The Daily Show\" have produced half-minute versions of the song and dance, as well as the entire lineup of the Miami Heat basketball team. In the Heat's version, oddly, there is actually a team member dancing in a spacesuit, while wearing mask of a horse head instead of helmet.\nThis isn't NASA's first parody video, however. Students from the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston crafted a \"NASA Gangnam Style\" video in a tribute to the smash hit music video by South Korean singer Psy \u2014 the original was YouTube's first video to garner 1 billion views.\nTo mark the landing of the Mars Rover Curiosity on the Red Planet, NASA employees from the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. parodied LMFAO's song \"Sexy and I Know It\" with the tamer \"We're NASA and We Know It.\"\nHomepage image courtesy of YouTube, NASAWallops"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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