It’s amazing how much space has influenced music over the years and how many singers and musicians are space fans.

Classical composers through the ages, from Haydn and Holst, to Gorecki and Glass, have looked to the Sun, Moon, planets and stars to feed their creativity and fire our imaginations.

Some music has become permanently connected with space in popular culture, for example the Blue Danube waltz by Johann Strauss reminds us of the classic scene in the movie ‘Farmageddon’, where Shaun the Sheep’s spacecraft famously has a ‘scrape’ with an orbiting space station. (It may have been used in another space film, ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’.)

In science fact, since the earliest years of the space age, spaceflight has been the subject of countless popular songs. Music even accompanied the crews of the first missions into space. The first Moon landing crew of Apollo 11 carried Dvorak’s New World Symphony with them.

We imagine Shaun floating near the Artemis I spacecraft’s window, looking down on the Moon and back at our beautiful planet Earth. Could that experience get any better? “Yes it can, especially if you’re plugged into your favourite playlist,” says ESA astronaut Tim Peake.

Tim spent six months on board the International Space Station in 2015-16 and took 75 of his favourite tracks to keep him happy and motivated when working out, taking photos and watching Earth.

Today’s astronauts can take music into space digitally, on their laptops or MP3 players (some even play instruments!). Why do astronauts take music into space? Astronauts say it’s one of the most personal things that you’re able to take up with you in orbit. Wherever your music is, that’s sort of a version of home.

ESA’s astronauts have shared their playlists with the public, on ESA’s Spotify music channel, and Shaun the Sheep is no exception. Here’s what he’ll be listening to on his mission to the Moon!

Here are the list of songs:

Space Song – Beach House

Learn to Fly – Foo Fighters

Space Man – Sam Ryder

To the Moon and back – Savage Garden

Don’t Stop me Now – Queen

Talking to the Moon – Bruno Mars

Space Age Love Song – A Flock of Seagulls

Green Green Grass of Home – Tom Jones

Space Melody (ft. Leony) – VIZE x Alan Walker

Fields of Gold – Sting

Moonshadow –  Yusuf/Cat Stevens

The Whole of the Moon – Waterboys

Everybody Wants to Wool the World – Tears for Shears

Dancing in the Moonlight – Toploader

Rocket Man – Elton John

Fly me to the Moon – Frank Sinatra

Starman – David Bowie

Stargazing – Kygo

Everybody Herds – REM

Space Oddity – David Bowie

Baaad Moon Rising  – Creedence Clearwater Revival

Space Cowboy – Jamiroquai

ET – Katy Perry

Ewe are the Sunshine of my Life – Stevie Wonder

Space Truckin’ – Deep Purple

Intergalactic – Beastie Boys

Flocks – Coldplay

Supersonic Rocket Ship – The Kinks

Spaceman – The Killers

Hoof got the Love – Florence + the Machine

Wake me up Herbivore you go-go – Wham!

Shaun the Sheep Theme – Geek Music

Shaun the Sheep’s House Party – Ilan Eshkeri

Everything is Better – Kieran Shudall (Farmageddon OST)