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There was music on Apollo 11. Here’s what astronauts listened to for their moon walk One small step for man, one giant leap for music. July 15, 2019. July 15, 2019. 6 min read.
For the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Adrin and Michael Collins July 20, 1969 moon landing, music historians look at the songs they played from the earth to the ...
But that is not the only music listened to on the Apollo 11 mission. Mickey Kapp, a Hollywood producer, had compiled a cassette tape of tracks for Armstrong to carry on the Apollo moon flight.
But only one of those songs actually was played by Apollo 11's astronauts on their moon mission. (Nothing against Elton or the Police, but their spacey tunes were still light years away.) ...
Long before playlists were a thing, the astronauts aboard Apollo 11 chose their favorite tunes to listen to on the space flight and for their historic moon walk. As the 50th anniversary of Neil ...
The Apollo 11 moon landing that took place on July 20, 1969, represented a staggering achievement for the human race. The desire to explore outside the earth’s boundaries reached back to Mesopotamia, ...
CNN's "Apollo 11" film — a 2019 documentary made with no voice-over narration or modern interviews — is available for on-demand viewing and will be shown on the network at 9 and 11 p.m ...
Yet long before playlists were a thing, the astronauts aboard Apollo 11 chose their favourite tunes to listen to on the space flight and for their historic moon walk. And only one of the songs ...
Velcro hook and loop fasteners accompanied Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin out onto the moon's surface on July 20, 1969 as part of their spacesuits. (Image credit: NASA/Velcro ...
The astronauts who flew the dress rehearsal for the first lunar landing reported hearing mysterious “outer space-type music” while flying behind the moon in May 1969.