First song played in space

“Jingle Bells” became the first song played in space when, on 16 December 1965, it was broadcast during NASA’s Gemini 6A space flight. The song, written by James Lord Pierpont (USA) in 1857, was originally titled “One-Horse Open Sleigh”. Gemini 6 astronauts Walter M. "Wally" Schirra Jr. and Thomas P. Stafford tricked Nasa's Mission Control by pretending they had spotted a UFO, before playing the Christmas classic using a harmonica and miniature sleigh bells. The pair were in high spirits having completed the first ever two-space-vehicle rendezvous in orbit with Frank Borman and James Lovell, Jr. in Gemini 7. Lovell was the first person to fly in space four times.