Strange ‘Space Music’ heard by Apollo 10 astronauts

NASA just released recording of strange ‘space music’ heard by Apollo 10 astronauts, on the far side of the Moon.

During transits around the far side of the moon, Apollo astronauts recorded strange “music” on their communication equipment:

Recent news articles have reported that “newly declassified” audiotapes reveal that Apollo 10 astronauts heard “outer-spacey” music as the spacecraft flew around the far side of the moon in 1969.

If you’d like to listen to the audio file, it is available HERE (starting at 2:50).

Here are the facts according to NASA:

“While listed as ‘confidential’ in 1969 at the height of the Space Race, Apollo 10 mission transcripts and audio have been publicly available since 1973.  Since the Internet did not exist in the Apollo era, we have only recently provided digital files for some of those earlier missions. The Apollo 10 audio clips were uploaded in 2012, but the mission’s audio recordings have been available at the National Archives since the early 1970s.”

As for the likely source of the sounds, Apollo 10 Lunar Module Pilot Gene Cernan told us on Monday, ‘I don’t remember that incident exciting me enough to take it seriously. It was probably just radio interference. Had we thought it was something other than that we would have briefed everyone after the flight. We never gave it another thought.’

source NASA