REAL LIFE NEWS: BAGPIPES… IN… SPAAAAACE!
by Hazed
A NASA astronaut on the International Space Station has been playing the bagpipes. Well, as they say, in space nobody can hear your bagpipes squeal!
There’s a video at the first source link below of Kjell Lindgren, flight engineer and mission specialist, playing Amazing Grace as a tribute to a research scientist who helped train him, and who passed away recently.
Playing the bagpipes is hard work on the ground, so in zero-g it must be even more difficult.
Personally, I can’t bear the sound of bagpipes so as far as I am concerned, space is the best place for them. But this isn’t the first time that bagpipes have been played in extreme circumstances, as you will see from the second link below.
Source: http://gizmodo.com/watch-astronaut-kjell-lindgren-play-amazing-grace-in-1742159656
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/extreme-bagpiping-situations-from-antarctica-to-the-beaches-of-dday
