Chris Hadfield recall he was coolheaded when he serenaded the Earth - bound humans with his interpreting ofSpace Oddityfrom theInternational Space Station(ISS ) , but Italian AstronautLuca Parmitanohas just raised the prevention by performing the first - ever DJ set from space .
Before get in on the ISS three weeks ago , the 42 - year - sure-enough take lessons from German DJ Le Shuuk , afterwards have to the deck from orbit . His live solidifying was beamed down to a party boat off the seashore of Ibiza host byWorld Club Dome , where around 3,000 hoi polloi rave the dark away to Parmitano ’s infinite track .
Obviously , it would have made more sense for the stage set to have been transmitted to Ibiza ’s notable Space club , but it seems that hosting the first - ever non - terrestrial DJ was n’t exciting enough for the prestigious venue .
Calling himself DJ AstroLuca , Parmitano missed a trick by flush it to let in space - themed tracks like ‘ Outta blank ’ by the Prodigy or ‘ Intergalactic ’ by the Beastie Boys in his set , instead opting for some trance tunes . Instead , he used the opportunity to share a substance about being able to “ get in touch across culture ” using the power of music and scientific discipline .
" Why are we execute a disc jockey set in orbit ? " Parmitano asks in the video below , as he ’s radiate onto a vast screen on the company boat . " Let me tell you a story about that … "
" About ten years ago I was being selected , interview as an astronaut , " he begins . " I got one interrogative from a psychologist that ask me : If you could exchange one affair in the world , what would you choose ? And I said , I would love for the existence to have one common words , which everybody could tattle because I consider communication is one way to solve most problems .
I thought at the metre such language did n’t exist … but then , later on , I realized mayhap I was wrong because there are two languages that are really common around the world that care to bring together people . The first one of these spoken language is maths ; the speech of science . Math is the same all over the human beings and scientists and mathematicians all over the worldly concern can use the same math to talk the same voice communication . They ’re all agreeing and disagreeing and communicating using one common linguistic process , the language of scientific discipline .
And the 2nd language that everybody knows and everybody understands is music . Music is an amazing equaliser , everybody savor medicine , everybody wanst to listen to euphony , and even if the music is unlike , everybody understands what the music is communicating . "
As his stage set took to a end , DJ AstroLuca address the revelers one last time .
" This was an opportunity for us all to portion out a common speech communication , a common dream , " he said . " Space is a very common pipe dream that joins people all over the world and this chance to unite science and music , for mass to enjoy them in this way , was just too good to pass . This is a great opportunity for hoi polloi to look around and enjoy the humans the same way that we do from up here . "
Parmitano will now put his DJ life history on hold and spend the next six months supporting around 250 experiments aboard the ISS .
