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Peter Schilling delivers the soundtrack for the flight to the ISS

“Completely detached from the earth”: Peter Schilling’s mega-success “Major Tom” is probably the space anthem of all. Now the singer has accompanied another astronaut on his journey.

Munich – “Major Tom” singer Peter Schilling (65) sees his collaboration with the German Aerospace Center (DLR) primarily as a show of respect for astronauts:

He admired her “for her tremendous courage to embark on this adventure space mission,” he told the German Press Agency in Munich.

DLR has published a video in which the German ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer is preparing for his flight to the international space station ISS. Schilling contributed the music to this video: his ballad “Alles an dir”. “I was very happy to be able to accompany a space mission with a German astronaut musically again,” said Schilling of the dpa.

Schilling is considered a space enthusiast and with his “completely detached” mega-success “Major Tom” from 1982 created the (tragic) space hymn par excellence, Maurer’s German predecessor on the ISS, Alexander Gerst, during his preparations for his mission “Horizon” accompanied.

The 51-year-old astronaut Maurer is scheduled to take off for the International Space Station on October 30 aboard NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The name of his mission: “Cosmic Kiss”.

The DLR justified the current decision in favor of the new Schilling song as follows: “From the DLR’s point of view, the text and especially the refrain” Everything about you, down to the smallest element, is a miracle “very well reflects Matthias’ change of perspective Maurer as a materials scientist and astronaut personally carries out his mission in space. ”Schilling sees the“ change of perspective in the fact that a mission into the outer universe needs just as much courage as into the inner universe, into the self, to oneself. This is what the song is about ”. dpa

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