On the evening of August 8, the 32nd Summer Olympic Games closed in Tokyo, and the 33rd Summer Olympic Games will be held in Paris, France. As is customary, the 8-minute performance of the host of the next Olympic Games is usually one of the most anticipated parts of the entire closing ceremony, and this time is no exception. During the 8-minute performance, French musicians played the Marseillaise not only in concert halls, but also in all corners of Paris. Finally, French astronaut Thomas Pescay, who was on a space mission to the International Space Station, used the saxophone to blow the last part of the Marseillaise, pushing the whole performance to a climax.
Thomas Pescay blows "Marseillaise" in space
It is understood that thomas pescay, 43, graduated from the French National Institute of Aerospace and was once a pilot of a passenger plane. In 2009, he emerged from 8413 candidates and was selected by the European Space Agency to become an astronaut.
On November 18, 2016, Thomas, along with Paige Whitson, a senior NASA astronaut, and Oleg Nowitzki, a Russian astronaut, flew into space on a Soyuz rocket and then began a 196-day life without gravity on the International Space Station. On January 13, 2017, Thomas successfully performed his first "spacewalk.".
On April 22, 2021, Thomas set off again to enter the International Space Station for a six-month Alpha mission. In June, thomas tweeted in space after the China National Space Administration sent three Chinese astronauts into space.
Poster for the documentary "16 Sunrises"
Thomas's saxophone performance brought to people around the world in real time by means of the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games on the International Space Station made netizens marvel, "Play romance, but also have to view Lancy!" According to the Red Star News reporter, this is not the first time Thomas has blown the saxophone on the International Space Station, as early as the 2018 documentary "16 Sunrises", he played the "Marseillaise" with the saxophone in the same background, and was included in the documentary's original record of the same name.
Screenshot of 16 Sunrises
The documentary "16 Sunrises" follows Thomas Pescay's 2016 space mission. This documentary featuring him takes the audience on a journey through the precious space mission, witnessing thrilling "spacewalks" and taking in the magnificent and ever-changing beauty of Earth from space.
In the documentary, Thomas, who is on a space mission for the first time, carries the work of the French pilot and writer Saint-Exupéry and his most famous character, the Little Prince Doll, into space. He also brought his beloved musical instrument, the saxophone, and in the magnificent space, Thomas played with endless emotions, and the romance of traveling through time and space was frozen here, and this perfectly composed scene also became the cover of the documentary and its soundtrack.
Thomas brings books and dolls with the Little Prince
Thomas said, "If I can survive this necessary and difficult task, I have only one question: what can and must we say to humanity?" "When "Marseillaise" accompanies the unique timbre of the saxophone resounds in outer space, it is both a yearning for the endless interstellar world and a miss for the homeland of the earth, and the romance of human beings wanders beyond time and space with the sound of music.
Red Star News reporter Ren Hongwei intern Wang Zuxi
Edited by Li Jie
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