It all started two years ago, when NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren consulted with the folks at Scottish company McCallum Bagpipes to see if they could make him pipes that could withstand space.

This is the moment an astronaut makes a space first - by blaring out Amazing Grace on bagpipes in space. Kjell Lindgren played the hymn while 250 miles above Earth on the International Space ...

These aren't just any bagpipes, though. The BBC reports that Lindgren wanted to be able to play in space so badly that he asked McCallum Bagpipes about logistics two years before he took off.

Kenny Macleod, who works at McCallum Bagpipes, told BBC Scotland the 42-year-old astronaut had got in touch two years ago to say he was going to the space station and wanted to play the pipes ...

For the first time ever, an astronaut was able to play the bagpipes in space. The astronaut, who played the Amazing Grace on the Scottish pipes, did so in tribute to a deceased scientist colleague.