NASA Releases Artemis II Astronauts' Wake-Up Playlist During Return from Lunar Flyby Mission

NASA released the Artemis II astronauts' wake-up playlist on Wednesday via Spotify, featuring eight songs chosen by the crew. The playlist includes "Sleepyhead" by Young & Sick, "Green Light (feat. Andre 3000)" by John Legend and Andre 3000, "In a Daydream" by Freddy Jones Band, "Pink Pony Club" by Chappell Roan, "Working Class Heroes (Work)" by CeeLo Green, "Good Morning" by Mandisa and TobyMac, "Tokyo Drifting" by Glass Animals and Denzel Curry, and "Under Pressure" by Queen and David Bowie.

This release continues a tradition of using music for morning wake-ups that began with the Apollo program more than 50 years ago. The Artemis II mission launched on April 1 with a crew of four: commander Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen.

The 10-day mission involved a lunar flyby earlier in the week, during which the crew became the first to loop around the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972.

They traveled farther from Earth than any previous human mission, achieving a maximum distance of 252,756 miles.

The astronauts captured photographs of Earth, the far side of the moon, and a solar eclipse during the flyby.

NASA and the White House released these images, showing a setting Earth and the eclipse from space. The crew observed large swaths of the moon's far side in daylight for the first time by humans. On Wednesday, the crew woke to "Under Pressure" as part of the daily music tradition.

NASA has not disclosed the wake-up song for the mission's final day on Friday. The Orion capsule is scheduled to splash down off the California coast near San Diego on that date.

music promotes camaraderie among astronauts and ground personnel, a practice dating to the Apollo era.