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.

In the 1970s music on tape cassettes were brought to the U.S. Space Station Skylab. An example of the Soviet's execution of music in space is when they allowed Aleksandr Laveikin and Yuri Romanenko to take a guitar to the space station Mir in 1987.

In 2016 NASA released sound recordings of what Apollo 10 astronauts reported as sounding like "space music" on their radio.

The strangest thing about playing music in space is that it's not strange. In most homes, there's a musical instrument or two. And I think it's fitting that in a home in space you have musical instruments as well. It's natural.

Music makes it seem less like a space ship, and more like a home.

Walz played a rendition of the song Heartbreak Hotel aboard the ISS in 2003, and this was recorded and transmitted to Earth also. Musical instruments need to be checked for gases they may emit before being taken aboard the confined space of the ISS. Instruments that have been aboard ISS by 2003 include a flute, keyboard guitar, a saxophone, and a didgeridoo.

Upon achieving a space rendezvous in Earth orbit between two manned spacecraft on Gemini 6A in December 1965, the sound of "Jingle Bells" was heard played on an 8-note Hohner "Little Lady" harmonica and a handful of small bells. The Smithsonian Institution claims these were the first musical instruments played in space and keeps the instruments on display and a visual image is also posted on their website. It was donated to the museum in 1967, with Wally noting it "...plays quite well".

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