Jingle Bells in space: the historic recording

Patrick sez, "Last year Boing Boing had a post about the first song ever played in outer space. On December 16 1965, the Gemini 6 crew played Jingle Bells while in Earth's orbit. I really wanted to hear that song, but there was no audio file to be found online. So I tracked it down. I have posted the recording of this historic event on YouTube."

The Song from Outer Space (Thanks, Patrick!)

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“The first song ever played in outer space” was Sputnik Spunk!
http://history.nasa.gov/sputnik/sputnik.wav
Melinda9

I love astronaut humor.
chaoskittenii

I think that should read the first human song played in outer space…
franko

i love this. hooray for astronauts!
jramboz

Is it sad that I more than half expected to see a “video removed due to copyright claim” when I clicked this?

Who cares, though! This little clip fills me with more holiday cheer than all the radio stations playing 24/7 Christmas music combined.
- gemini6
  
  Glad you liked it!
  
  My head pretty much exploded when I finally found it on the NASA archive.
  
  I knew I just had to share it.
  - http://aqfl.net Ant
    
    What was the URL to that specific archive?
gemini6

Patrick here –

FYI, I do actually have “first song performed by humans” on my FB page and the info section of the YouTube page.

Although I personally would classify what Sputnik emitted as a signal, rather than a song, but I ain’t gonna start a fight at Christmastime. :-)

For the record, I had a great experience doing this, and would love to see some crowdsourcing effort develop to pull more treasures from the NASA archives. There is a lot more cool stuff to be found.
ojisan

Oh yah. Favourite anime of mine, Twin Spica, makes a big deal about that harmonica – the first musical instrument to leave earth. Little 5-hole harmonica one of the astronauts smuggled in around his neck -
word_virus

This sounds like the sort of thing I’d hear in a continuous loop on a numbers station…