Techno at the gym, disco for the club, pop on the long drives - but what music is right for space? You might not expect astronauts to be jamming out to tunes like Chappell Roan's Pink Pony Club or Tokyo Drifting by Glass Animals and Denzel Curry - but that's what the Artemis II crew have been waking up to on Nasa's most recent trip around the moon. US rapper Curry tells BBC Newsbeat of his excitement and shock that his song reached new heights this week.
He says if he was to ever meet the astronauts he would want to "give all of them a hug for even thinking about me" for their space playlist. Curry, who says he's always had an interest in space-related films, hopes the song gets a "second life now" and his next ambition is to be the first rapper to perform in space. And there is more to the relationship between space and music than you might think.
While the final checks were being completed before now-retired British astronaut Tim Peake's trip to the International Space Station in 2015, he picked three songs. His spirit-boosting playlist consisted of Queen's Don't Stop Me Now, U2's Beautiful Day and Coldplay's A Sky Full of Stars. "I wanted to have a bit of fun before launch," he tells Newsbeat, adding that music is "really important" to have in space.
"I think it gives you a connection back to Earth," Peake says. "It reminds you of times in your life when you've heard that music. Maybe it reminds you of friends and family." The experience of hearing human music being played in space is "quite surreal", he says.
"You look back and you see the entire planet… and that's it. "This lovely, beautiful, sort of blue, green, white marble in the blackness of space. "So to actually have that music inside your capsule is really important to make that connection back to your loved ones." That connection through a "familiar song" is key, according to Antonia Jaramillo, who works for Nasa.
They are going around the moon," Jaramillo tells Newsbeat from mission control in Houston. "We all have our morning wake up routine. "You have a soundtrack to get you in the zone.
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