Gemini 6 playing first song in space [video]
Posted by staff / December 16, 2011
Never let it be said astronauts are all business.
After an exhaustive search of NASA audio files and mission transcripts, YouTube user buzzlab (aka, Patrick) located the elusive recording of what is believed to be the first song ever played in space and, apropos of the season, that song was “Jingle Bells.”
On December 16, 1965, while in orbit above planet Earth, the crew of Gemini 6 added another milestone to their already historic mission.
Astronauts Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford reported sighting an object, a satellite, in a “polar orbit…traveling North to South.”
“Stand by, he’s trying to signal something,” reported Schirra.
The next thing heard at Mission Control was a rendition of Jingle Bells performed by the astronauts using instruments which they had smuggled onboard.
Thanks for all your hard work!
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