HIGH NOTES
According to the Guinness Book of Records, on 8 March 1969 Happy Birthday became the first song performed in outer space, when the Apollo 9 astronauts performed it to mark the 45th birthday of the mission’s aptly-named Flight Operations Director Chris Kraft. There are, however, a few problems to that claim to fame. Firstly, Kraft’s birthday was actually 28 February; the Apollo 9 mission—and ultimately the crew’s performance—was delayed a few days to allow some of them to reco