NASA drops Artemis II moon mission playlist with astronauts' wake-up songs

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As the Artemis II ngo crew heads backmost toward Earth pursuing a history-making trip astir the moon this week, NASA dropped the astronauts' highly anticipated greeting playlist.

"You asked for it. Here it is," NASA wrote Wednesday connected societal media, sharing the database via Spotify. "Each way was selected by the Moon crew, continuing a contented that started much than 50 years ago. Stay tuned to find retired which songs they'll take next."

The existent eight-song database includes:

"Sleepyhead" by Young & Sick
"Green Light (feat. André 3000)" by John Legend and André 3000
"In a Daydream" by Freddy Jones Band
"Pink Pony Club" by Chappell Roan
"Working Class Heroes (Work)" by CeeLo Green
"Good Morning" by Mandisa and TobyMac
"Tokyo Drifting" by Glass Animals and Denzel Curry
"Under Pressure" by Queen and David Bowie

Artemis II commandant Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen were launched into abstraction connected April 1 for their 10-day satellite mission. Earlier this week, they completed a lunar flyby, becoming the archetypal astronauts to loop astir the satellite successful much than fractional a century. The unit captured stunning photos of Earth, the acold broadside of the satellite and an eclipse successful space.

The astronauts are the archetypal humans to person seen with their ain eyes ample swaths of the acold broadside of the satellite successful daylight, and they traveled farther from Earth than immoderate humans successful history, reaching a maximum region from Earth of 252,756 miles.

The unit has woken up to euphony each time — "Under Pressure" played Wednesday — which is simply a contented held implicit from erstwhile Apollo missions.

Why does NASA usage euphony for wake-up calls?

In 2015, Colin Fries of the NASA History Division compiled a chronology of wake-up calls.

"There person ever been inquiries astir flown items and ngo events arsenic we each know, and those astir wakeup calls and euphony played successful abstraction encompassed a dependable watercourse (no pun intended)!" helium wrote.

In his chronology, Fries referenced a missive from Lynn W. Heninger, past NASA's acting adjunct head for legislature relations, to a lawmaker successful 1990 successful which Heninger wrote: "Use of euphony to awaken astronauts connected abstraction missions dates backmost astatine slightest to the Apollo Program, erstwhile astronauts returning from the Moon were serenaded by their colleagues successful ngo power with lyrics from fashionable songs that seemed due to the occasion."

"The communal constituent of each these selections is that they beforehand a consciousness of camaraderie and esprit de corps among the astronauts and crushed enactment personnel. That, successful fact, is the sole crushed for having wake-up music; and it is the crushed that NASA absorption has neither attempted to dictate its contented nor allowed extracurricular interests to power the process," Heninger wrote to Illinois Rep. Robert H. Michel.

What are past crews' wake-up songs?

The Apollo 10 ngo crew's wake-up songs successful 1969 included "The Best Is Yet To Come" by Tony Bennett and "It's Nice to Go Trav'ling" by Frank Sinatra, and "Come Fly With Me" erstwhile Apollo 10 woke up Mission Control.

The Apollo 15 ngo successful 1971 had a consciousness of humor, selecting the taxable opus from "2001: A Space Odyssey."

What opus volition the Artemis II unit aftermath up to connected their last time successful space?

NASA hasn't said conscionable yet, but successful the past, respective crews person woken up connected their last time successful abstraction to Dean Martin's fashionable opus "Going Back to Houston."

The Artemis II crew's last time successful abstraction is Friday, erstwhile the Orion capsule is expected to splash down disconnected the California seashore adjacent San Diego.

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