The illustrious Jack White has picked up another feather for his already very feathered fedora, becoming the first person to play a record in space.
Occuring on July 30, The Third Man Records label-head launched a gold-plated “space-proof” turntable into the sky that was playing a gold plated vinyl record. Because if you’re going to do something like this you’ve gotta go all out, right?
The turntable soared 28,000 metres above the Earth’s surface, playing John Boswell’s ‘A Glorious Dawn’ and a recording of American scientist Carl Sagan describing the universe.
After 80-minutes of listening to Carl Sagan of drifting above the Earth, the balloon burst and the turntable returned to the launch site in Marsing, Idaho.
“Our main goal from inception to completion of this project was to inject imagination and inspiration into the daily discourse of music and vinyl lovers” White said.
“We hope that in meeting our goal we inspire others to dream big and start their own missions, whatever they may be.”
The craft took three years to build for the mission, and was the result of some serious handywork from Kevin Carrico. As for the gold plated record, it was juts for show. The gold plating actually allowed the record’s grooves to maintain shape without contracting from direct sunlight.
Check out the full video of the effort below.
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