@DENZEL CURRY woke up the Artemis II crew. ⁠ ⁠ NASA confirmed that "Tokyo Drifting"—the 2019 collaboration between Curry and Glass Animals—served as the wake-up song for astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen as they began their journey back to Earth after a historic lunar flyby. It was the first time humans have traveled to the vicinity of the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972. ⁠Curry's response on X: "Even Aliens F*ck with my Sh*t! First Rapper Played in SPACE N***A."⁠ ⁠ In 2024, NASA transmitted Missy Elliott's "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)" to Venus via its Deep Space Network, but it was never heard by astronauts on a crewed mission. And while will.i.am's "Reach for the Stars" made history in 2012 as the first song broadcast from another planet (beamed back from the unmanned Curiosity rover on Mars) that too was a robotic mission. ⁠ ⁠ "Tokyo Drifting" is the first rapper's music played onboard a crewed spacecraft for the people actually in it. The Artemis ...