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Lucy (music for the NASA mission)

by Dan Lynch

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Lucy, a NASA mission due to launch in October 2021, will be the first space mission to study the Jovian Trojans - two clusters of asteroids that share Jupiter's orbit around the sun, at the L4 and L5 Lagrange points. NASA refers to these Trojans as "[t]ime capsules from the birth of our Solar System more than 4 billion years ago...thought to be remnants of the primordial material that formed the outer planets."

Named for "Lucy" (the fossilized human ancestor whose skeleton provided insights into the evolution of our species), the mission aims to learn more about the origins of life on our planet and possibly elsewhere in our solar system: "All of the Trojans are thought to be abundant in dark carbon compounds. Below an insulating blanket of dust, they are probably rich in water and other volatile substances."

To learn more about the mission, see www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/lucy/overview/index

As for the music, NASA has invited musicians worldwide to contribute original music to the Lucy Soundscape, a "musical mission patch" written around a 3-note motif: C-B-A.

This song is my contribution to the Lucy Soundscape, and it draws inspiration from the usual suspects: John Williams, James Horner, and Jerry Goldsmith, to name a few. It was an absolute thrill to write this piece and push myself, compositionally speaking.

The context in which this piece came about - working from home while awaiting the end of the COVID-19 pandemic - complements Lucy's mission to understand where life came from with the additional perspective that life on Earth is rare, fragile, and beautiful.

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released May 17, 2021

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Dan Lynch Chicago, Illinois

Robotics student by day, musician by night. Currently getting a PhD in mechanical engineering from Northwestern University and researching legged robotic locomotion on deformable terrain.

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