In more recent years, astronauts still use music to signify different moments in space.
Armstrong says “there’s also a long history of using songs on uncrewed missions”.
She tells Newsbeat the unmanned probe Voyager mission, which went out past the edge of the solar system into deep space in 1977, had a disc containing lots of songs and sounds “representing the diversity of human experience”.
The 33-year-old adds that the Tesla Roadster put into space by SpaceX is programmed to play David Bowie’s Space Oddity “on loop”.
Armstrong says US astronaut Christina Koch, who is part of the Artemis II crew, is very interested in “music in space”.
She says the 47-year-old “found the cassette tape that they played on the Apollo 11 mission”.
Koch then played it during the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing when she was on the International Space Station (ISS).
During her time on the ISS in 2019 to 2020, “she learned to play a song for her husband on the keyboard for their wedding anniversary”.
Koch has also been known to create playlists with her husband.
The idea is each playlist is the soundtrack to a section of her journey that they both listen to, so they can feel connected despite the distance.