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Nashville, Tennessee-based Third Man Records – which was founded by The White Stripes’ Jack White and has released works by Wanda Jackson, Laura Marling and Cold War Kids – went all out to celebrate it’s seventh anniversary over the weekend, by launching the first vinyl played in space – or rather, the edge of space, to be precise. The indie label sent a turntable 94,000 feet up into the stratosphere as it played Carl Sagan’s “A Glorious Dawn from” ‘Cosmos’. To achieve this, the company teamed up with engineer Kevin Carrico and Students and Teachers in Near Space, and built…

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