Music in space

Music in space is Music in Outer space, related typically to the playing of sounds in Human spaceflight, but also sometimes related to un-manned missions. Music in space has been a focal point of public relation events of various spaceflight program missions. An example of a NASA incorporating music in space when Astronaut Chris Hadfield filmed himself playing David Bowie's song Space Oddity on the International Space Station in 2013, and then uploaded it to the Internet Website Youtube.

An example of the Soviet's execution of Music in space is when they allowed Aleksandr Laveikin and Yuri Romanenko to take guitar to the Space Station Mir in 1987.

In 2003 the British space organization's Beagle 2 probe was scheduled to play a song from the UK music band Blur, upon touchdown on the planet Mars.

Apollo XVII (1972)

A few bars of The Fountain in the Park were sung on the Moon by NASA Astronauts Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan on the Apollo 17 mission. Schmitt started by singing "I was strolling on the Moon one day..." when Cernan joined in. Cernan kept with the original "merry month of May", however, while Schmitt sang "December", which was the actual date at the time. After a brief debate, Schmitt resumed, singing "When much to my surprise, a pair of bonny eyes..." until he could no longer remember the lyrics and began vocalizing the notes instead. Moments later, Capsule Communicator Robert A. Parker cut in from Houston, saying "sorry about that, guys, but today may be December."

See also

• Space-themed music (is Music related to outer space)
• Space music (a genre of Music type)