When Willie Nelson, a legend of country music, set out to make video to his song "You Don't Think I'm Funny Anymore," premiering this Saturday on MTV, he named some of his celebrity friends and invited them to appear alongside him, such as Owen Wilson or Woody Harrelson, he somehow forgot to invite Alvin Drew. NASA astronaut Alvin Drew said "I do listen to Willie Nelson's music, but I wouldn't call myself a rabid fan, where I would go out and look for places to go check Willie Nelson out,", who logged 13 days in space as a mission specialist on shuttle Endeavour's August 2007 flight to the International Space Station. When his friend had invited him to join him at his running club, they met another regular, a friend of the singer. Drew explained: "So we get all done running and cleaned up, and he says, 'Hey, you want us to go over and spend some time at Willie Nelson's bar?' The friend I was with in Austin is a huge Willie Nelson fan, so he said, 'Why don't you come with us. It would be a great thing to do. We'll go over to Willie Nelson's bar and have a beer, meet Willie Nelson and then have a relaxing afternoon.'" However, when they arrived to Nelson's ranch, a problem occurred-the security would not let them in. "It turns out because they were shooting a video." continued Drew. "It turns out they needed extras for the final scene when they are giving out awards. They were looking for people to be extras, especially people with flash cameras. So, that is why I got recruited to go out there with a flash camera." At last, the many times awarded astronaut and NASA's mission specialist was just part of the general public. He did what he was told and stood in the crowd of cheering people, behind Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson. "It was only after they were all done and it was a wrap, and we were sitting around in Willie Nelson's bar, that it came up," Drew said with a laugh. "I sat there and had a good long chat with Willie Nelson." Nelson proved good sense of humor, when he after this incident, said: "He thought it was pretty interesting."
Edited by: Katarina Bosanska
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