'DJ Astro Luca', a.k.a. European
Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano, on Tuesday became the
first astronaut to perform a live DJ session from outer space.
The evening special was held at Ibiza's World Club Dome.
After talking about his team's work onboard the International
Space Station (ISS), he said that "ten years ago I was selected
as an astronaut and I was asked how I would change the world if
I could. I answered the possibility of a single shared
language".
Later, the European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut said, he
realised that there are two internationally shared languages,
"one is mathematics, the language of science, and the other is
music, which everyone understands and enables everyone to
communicate".
And so, tablet in hand, he chose songs for thousands of
youths and adults to dance to on Tuesday evening.
"Space is a shared dream," he added, "that unites the world.
I hope that you enjoyed this opportunity to bring together
science and music, and that you enjoy the world as we do here
from the Space Station."
The disco managers wrote on Facebook - paraphrasing the
well-known expression by Neil Armstrong when he landed on the
moon - "one small step for a DJ, an enormous one for the
world!".
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