{"id":689494,"date":"2021-05-07T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=689494"},"modified":"2021-05-07T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T10:00:00","slug":"higher-power-in-space-thomas-pesquet-coldplay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=689494","title":{"rendered":"Higher Power in space | Thomas Pesquet &amp; Coldplay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Higher_Power_in_space_Thomas_Pesquet_Coldplay_card_full.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n\tVideo:<br \/>\n\t\t\t00:06:56<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the premiere of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/studio.youtube.com\/channel\/UCDPM_n1atn2ijUwHd0NNRQw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Coldplay<\/a>&#8216;s latest single &#8216;Higher Power\u2019, the band linked up for an extraterrestrial video chat with French ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, who is currently on a six-month mission on board the International Space Station. A specially recorded performance of Higher Power &#8211; featuring dancing alien holograms &#8211; was beamed up to Thomas, who gave the track its very first play on board the Station. The song\u2019s premiere followed a conversation which took in similarities between life on tour and life on the Space Station, how planet Earth looks from space and its fragility; and how Thomas listens to music in microgravity.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2021\/05\/Higher_Power_in_space_Thomas_Pesquet_Coldplay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Higher Power in space | Thomas Pesquet &amp; Coldplay<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video: 00:06:56 To celebrate the premiere of\u00a0Coldplay&#8216;s latest single &#8216;Higher Power\u2019, the band linked up for an extraterrestrial video chat with French ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, who is currently on&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":689495,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=689494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/689495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=689494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=689494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=689494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}