The White Stripes singer Jack White has made history by playing a vinyl record in the Earth's stratosphere for the first time. Using a "space-proof" turntable and a gold-plated disc, White and his label Third Man Records were able to play a record featuring Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan 28,000 metres above Earth. A special space mission took place on July 2, with the record playing for about 80 minutes as the craft ascended into near-space until the high-altitude balloon burst and the craft fell back down towards Marsing in Idaho. The turntable played A Glorious Dawn, a creation by electronic artist John Boswell sampling clips from astronomer Sagan's TV documentary series Cosmos and scientist Hawking's documentary Universe. Revealing the mission's success on Saturday, Third Man Records founder White said: "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." He added: "It brings us great fulfilment to pay tribute to the incredible scientist and dreamer that Carl Sagan was. "We hope that in meeting our goal we inspire others to dream big and start their own missions, whatever...
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