In the 'new' space race also record companies and NFT, the increasingly popular 'non-fungible token', that is a sort of certification of authorship of a digital content, which is by definition a type of 'object' perfectly reproducible.
A special edition of Claude Debussy's 'Chiaro di Luna' was sent and played on the International Space Station (ISS) and became the first NFT song to reach Earth's orbit.
The authors of this first NFT in space were Nanoracks, an American company known above all for the many missions developed using the small Cubesat satellites, and Artemis Music, an independent online music label. The two companies joined forces to transmit on board the ISS the famous Moonlight written in 1905 by Debussy, played by pianist Wing-Chong Kam, during an entire orbit of the planet. The song file was then sent back to earth and certified as NFT.
In recent months, the NFTs have made a boom in popularity especially for the stratospheric figures to which they have been sold. One of the most sensational cases was the sale of an NFT digital work by the artist Beeple at Christie's for 58 million euros, while in the more scientific field, the sale of the NFT of the documents relating to the award of the Nobel Prize James Allison should be noted. for 50 thousand dollars and the source code of the first browser of Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web.
The NFT market has also aroused great criticism because if it is true that on the one hand it seems to represent a first real solution to protect the copyright of intangible contents, on the other it seems to escape the logic of common sense and causes not a few impacts on environment.
In fact, NFTs make use of a computer mechanism in many ways similar to the cryptocurrency blockchain and to stay 'updated' they must use large amounts of energy in the form of computer calculations.
However, it remains a fact that the world of NFT is updated from today with the first protected digital work to have completed an orbit around the planet and its creators hope that in the future many other artists will also bring their works to the Moon, Mars and beyond. .
