Tag: Artemis II

I received this private message from Pete Foltz this morning (which I am sharing with his permission):

“Ok – the best soundtrack for circling the moon? Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla? Or Pink Floyd?”

Anyone?

Astronauts have taken a lot of music to space over the years. Here’s a post I wrote about Rusty Schweickart, who took Vaughan Williams and Alan Hovhaness, before it was cool, on Apollo 9.

https://www.facebook.com/classicrossamico/posts/pfbid0zHUr5KgGEPdnJ5H7ABpitYA3wcTNiaG3qf7dBXRSjBieKmGb583kaVuzbAjt4HVPl

What composers or pieces of music would be on your mixtape? Rusty’s sounds pretty good to me.