tags: music video, Beethoven, moonlight sonata, NASA, space station, Astronaut Ed Lu, streaming video
In this video, astronaut Ed Lu plays Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" on board the International Space Station in 2003 (Video courtesy of NASA). I can't help but wonder what Beethoven would have thought about his music being performed in space. Was his music the first to be performed in space?
Performed on an instrument - likely.
There are claims that Yuri Gagarin was the first to whistle a song in space and that Happy Birthday was the first song sung by the crew of the Apollo IX.