It was this approach which inspired me to collect the musical choices of faculty, staff, alumni and students of the program in much more comprehensive fashion. Yet, few may have taken this seemingly natural linkage so literally as Professor Jack Beard: as soon as he started teaching classes in UNL’s LLM program in Space, Cyber and Telecommunications Law, he decided to use clips of music to set the mood, allowing students to come up with their respective favorites. From the launch of a spacecraft as a first-magnitude dramatic event, naturally calling for the accompaniment of bombastic high-volume orchestration, to the immense emptiness of outer space, to be reflected by alienating minimal-music soundscapes: there’s nothing like a good piece of music to underscore the uniqueness of outer space and the space experience.

Many are the links between space and music – music as the most abstract of arts often offering the most appropriate means to capture and reflect the out-of-the-ordinary character of outer space, where words may easily seem to come up short.

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