Paul McCartney has become the first musician to broadcast live to an audience in space. A performance by the former Beatle was beamed into the international space station to an appreciative audience of two. He performed a version of the Beatles song 'Good Day Sunshine' - the track having motivated the outta space performance. McCartney decided to make the broadcast after he heard NASA had used the song to wake the Space Shuttle Discovery crew on the day weather conditions were right for them to return to Earth.
McCartney commented: "I can't believe that we're actually transmitting to space! This is sensational. I love it", while his audience, NASA astronaut Bill McArthur and his Russian counterpart Valery Tokarev, cheered the singer at the end of his performance, while McArthur did a couple of zero-gravity flips, before saying: "That was simply magnificent. We consider you an explorer just as we are."