In recognition of Space Exploration Day, we have a collection of the weirdest, creepiest, funniest,

and just plain strange stories from the history of humans in space.

It would be nice if everything always went perfectly and nothing unexpected ever happened,

but as we're going to find out, that's not always the case.

That's coming up right now on Skeptoid.

You're listening to Skeptoid. I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

Strange but true stories from space.

Welcome to the show that separates fact from fiction, science from pseudoscience, real history from fake history, and helps us all make better life decisions by knowing what's real and what's not. This week we're celebrating

Space Exploration Day which comes each year on July 20th, the anniversary of

Neil Armstrong's historic first steps on the moon.

How should we commemorate that day at Skeptoid?

Why, with a special episode, of course.

Today we've got a collection of stories and anecdotes from the annals of crude spaceflight,

stories that are weird, creepy, funny, mysterious, and in one case just plain gross.

Some of you have probably heard some of these before,

but my bet is that nobody will have heard all of them.

So I now present to you in honor of Space Exploration Day. Strange but true stories from space.

We'll get started with Apollo Space Music.

In 1969, Apollo 10 did an orbit around the backside of the moon on their mission to test every single component of a full moon landing mission except the actual landing. While astronauts Thomas Stafford, John Young, and Jean Cernan were back there, they heard a strange

sound they described as space music coming over the radio which lasted for nearly a full hour

That music even sounds outer spacey, didn't it? You hear that? That whistling sound?

Yeah.

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