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Jean-Michel Jarre Remembers Challenger Astronaut Ron McNair and the Performance that Never Took Place
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McNair was just the second African American to fly in space, doing so in February 1984, and he was a talented artist.
By taking a curved soprano saxophone aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger STS-41B mission that year, he became the first person to play a musical instrument in space.
On Jan. 28, 1986, just 73 seconds after liftoff, the Challenger shuttle exploded.
“Today marks the 40th anniversary of the Challenger space shuttle tragedy,” writes Jarre in a social post.
“That performance never took place,” Jarre writes, “but Ron’s Piece lives on.