posted 09-02-2008 11:33 PM            

Q: I love your description of solo time around the moon, doing your own solo lunar science mission, listening to classical music. Was that a favorite moment of the flight?

A: It's another highlight. I look back on that, and it's a series of highlights. There is no sensation, no view that you could say is it. There is just this endless stream of unbelievable things that happened. But for me, putting music with these unbelievable sensations is just kind of the ultimate in exhilaration. I think, having talked to John, one of the few who had a chance to fly solo and have a chance to go down and land, they are both unique experiences. You really want to do both - I didn't quite get to do the second part. Which I miss, but I had never trained that configuration.

posted 10-30-2008 06:40 PM            

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Originally posted by Robert Pearlman:
Speaking of which, I recently came across (and bought) this neat contemporary replica of Schirra's harmonica

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posted 09-27-2009 09:49 PM               

And although your audio cassette might not have been manufactured by NASA or on its behalf, the agency most probably had to process this artifact along the way to approve its presence and use on board.

posted 09-30-2009 06:00 PM               

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Originally posted by StarDome:
Slim Dusty was the first artist broadcast from the Space Shuttle when astronauts John Young and Bob Crippen played his rendition of Waltzing Matilda from Space Shuttle Columbia...

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posted 11-20-2009 04:52 AM            

For iTunes users, see UK iTunes store, search iMix 'Apollo 12'. Track list:

• Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley
  
• Son of a Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield
  
• Freight Train - Peter, Paul And Mary
  
• Those Were the Days - Mary Hopkin
  
• Wedding Bell Blues - The 5th Dimension
  
• Sugar Sugar - The Archies
  
• Little Woman - Bobby Sherman
  
• Mexican Shuffle - Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
  
• Sam's Place - Buck Owens
  
• Rollin' In My Sweet Baby's Arms - Buck Owens
  
• Jerry's Breakdown - Chet Atkins & Jerry Reed
  
• San Antonio Rose - Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys
  
• Louisiana Man - Charley Pride
  
• Orange Blossom Special - Don Rich & the Buckaroos
  
• I'm So Afraid of Losing You Again - Charley Pride
  
• Wine Me Up - Faron Young
  
• Kaw-Liga - Charley Pride
  
• Oh, Lonesome Me - Don Gibson

posted 05-26-2011 05:05 PM               

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Originally posted by Darren Russell Hayman:
I am now writing an article about the music that has been taken into space by astronauts and unmanned satellites.

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posted 11-01-2016 02:22 PM               

Anywhere a list of other classical music taken onboard the Apollo missions?

posted 05-06-2017 07:21 AM               

There is a little audio clip in "For All Mankind," hence my question... is anyone aware of these recordings being documented or better yet converted to electronic media?

posted 05-06-2017 08:01 AM               

The crew had a special creation from home to occupy them during lulls in the flight in the form of a contemporary popular music cassette tape that was recorded with the help of a friend...

posted 05-06-2017 06:34 PM               

Artists included:

• The Beatles
  
• Simon and Garfunkel
  
• Blood Sweat and Tears
  
• Creedence Clearwater Revival
  
• James Taylor
  
• Marvin Gaye
  
• Otis Redding
  
• Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass
  
• Al Hirt
  
• Mason Williams
  
• Paul Mauriat
  
• Bob Haggart and His Bobcats
  
• Music from the stage play My Fair Lady

The story of how country music flew to the moon with the Apollo 14 flight has been revealed in a ceremony here.

Each of the three artists did original recordings for the flight. Cash wrote and narrated a history of America, to music; Lewis booked a recording session at Fame Studio in Memphis at his own expense, and did a special show for Roosa, Ed Mitchell, and Alan Shepard. Along with narration, there were selected songs. Among others, he sang Roosa's favorite, "Waiting For A Train."

James also included some requested songs, concluding with a religious rendition. Apollo 14 took the tapes to the moon, and Lewis and James received autographed photos of the flight, together with a letter of thanks from Roosa mounted on plaques with cloth flags that had accompanied the astronauts on their flight.

The presentation to the singers was made on stage here when they appeared at a recent concert. James, calling the incident the "greatest thrill of my life," said he would eventually turn his letter, pictures and flag over to the Country Music Hall of Fame so that all country fans could share in the event.

The tape of Cash was removed by Bailey when a member of the singer's entourage let it slip to the press in Tucson, Arizona, that such a project was underway. It was not Cash who made the revelation. Bailey said at the time that the success of the project depended upon absolute secrecy.

• San Antonio Rose
  
• Waiting For A Train
  
• We Live In Two Different Worlds
  
• Green Green Grass Of Home
  
• Great Balls Of Fire
  
• I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You)
  
• I'll Fly Away
  

The letter from Roosa to Lewis, dated 25 May 1971, hung proudly in Lewis' home in Nesbit, Mississippi, and reads:

Dear Mr Lewis,

Our most heartfelt thank you for the tremendous tape you cut for me to take on Apollo 14. I can’t really describe how much it meant to me to have your music on board when we were 240,000 miles from home and the Earth had shrunk to a tiny ball.