Foundations Music

Dashing through the skies! 🚀

60 years ago, ‘Jingle Bells’ became the first song played in space when it was performed by astronauts Walter M. "Wally" Schirra Jr. and Thomas P. Stafford during NASA’s Gemini 6A space flight.

The pair had just completed the first ever rendezvous of two spacecraft in orbit, meeting with Gemini 7 spaceship piloted by Frank Borman and James Lovell Jr. In high spirits, the Gemini 6 astronauts decided to trick Nasa's Mission Control by pretending they had spotted a UFO, before playing the Christmas classic using a harmonica and miniature sleigh bells.