Do instruments sound different in space?

Yes. Since a space station typically contains regular air at normal pressure in order to keep the humans comfortable, the sounds created by playing a guitar will be the same as on earth. The weightless environment inside a space station has no effect on the guitar’s ability to create sound.

Can musical instruments be played in space?

A lot of astronauts play instruments. There’s even an astronaut rock-and-roll band. And a surprising variety of musical instruments have found their way into space: in addition to the keyboard, there’s been a flute, a guitar, a saxophone, and an Australian aboriginal wind instrument known as a didgeridoo.

Can you play a saxophone in space?

Accomplished jazz saxophonist Ron McNair, the first astronaut to play a musical instrument in space, shown here playing the sax on the NASA STS 41-B mission aboard the Challenger, February 1984.

How does music sound in space?

Sound travels in waves like light or heat does, but unlike them, sound travels by making molecules vibrate. On Earth, sound travels to your ears by vibrating air molecules. In deep space, the large empty areas between stars and planets, there are no molecules to vibrate. There is no sound there.

Could you hear music in space?

Space is a vacuum — so it generally doesn’t carry sound waves like air does here on Earth (though some sounds do exist in outer space, we just can’t hear them). These radio emissions are then converted into sound waves, and the result is the spooky sounds NASA put together into a playlist.

Could you play music on the moon?

The Earth, even if all life is wiped out, will not be a ‘quiet’ place (assuming everything else remains the same.) We would hear the sounds of the waves and the breeze and occasionally of the erupting volcanoes and even earthquakes. Thus there is no sound on the Moon. …

Has anyone played guitar in space?

Chris Hadfield plays guitar on the Space Station.

What song did Ron McNair play in space?

The Jean Michel Jarre track “Last Rendez-Vous” was re-titled “Ron’s Piece” in his honor. McNair was originally due to record the track in space aboard Challenger, and then perform it via a live link up in Jarre’s Rendez-vous Houston concert.

What was the first song sent into space?

Jingle Bells
“Jingle Bells” became the first song played in space when, on 16 December 1965, it was broadcast during NASA’s Gemini 6A space flight.

Why can’t you whistle on the moon?

When astronauts are out in space, they can whistle, talk, or even yell inside their own spacesuit, but the other astronauts would not hear the noise. Because there is nothing out in space (like an atmosphere), the sound waves from one astronaut’s whistling can’t travel over to the other astronaut’s ears.