Melody of cosmos
Usually people consider work on the ISS to be complicated and quite boring. However, in the space there is even much more place for creativity than on the Earth. Thus cosmonautes have enjoyed various types of music in orbit for many years already. Let`s find out what instruments they use and what music accompanies them during flights.
There is plenty of information in the Internet about things which refer to cosmos exploring. This article aims to show another angle of this theme and entertain you.
Have you ever promised to yourself necessarily to start learning to play the guitar tomorrow? But then found amount of reasons not to do it. Don`t you have enough time? Well, even cosmonautes do.
On the 28 of April 2018 Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov made a post on Twitter about a real 'cosmic concert' on the space station. 'AstroHawaii' band appeared, which consists of Russian and American men.
On the photo Oleg Artemyev, A.J. (Drew) Feustel, Ricky Arnold and Scott D. Tingle are playing different music instruments aboard the ISS
Actually, it`s not the first talanted crew of 'musicians' in cosmos. Three years ago in November 2015 NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren played 'Amazing Grace' on the bagpipes.
Do you still doubt your chances to start practicing music?
What about moving to the 20th century? It`s impressive to find out that astronaut Ron McNair played a saxophone aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger already in February 1984
Cosmic playlist
But not only their own performances provide cosmonautes with pleasure - they also listen to musical records during flights. And nowadays we are able to look through their playlists. There you can find such names as: Pink Floyd, Luke Bryan, Deep Purple, Muse, etc.
So if you want to be on the same wavelength with astronauts, you can start here
So if you want to be on the same wavelength with astronauts, you can start here
Author: Anna Dodonova
