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==NASA association== [[Image:Quincy Jones, John Glenn, and Neil Armstrong during NASA's 50th anniversary gala.jpg|right|thumb|[[Quincy Jones]] presents platinum copies of Frank Sinatra's album to Senator [[John Glenn]] and [[Apollo 11]] Commander [[Neil Armstrong]]]] Frank Sinatra's 1964 recording of "Fly Me to the Moon" became closely associated with [[NASA]]'s [[Apollo program|Apollo space program]]. A copy of the song was played on a [[Sony TC-50]] portable cassette player on the [[Apollo 10]] mission which orbited the Moon,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://apollotribute2.blogspot.com.au/2006_04_01_archive.html |title=Lunar Collections: April 2006 |website=Apollotribute2.blogspot.com.au |date=2006-04-13 |access-date=2016-09-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160807133829/http://apollotribute2.blogspot.com.au/2006_04_01_archive.html |archive-date=2016-08-07 |url-status=live }}</ref> and also on [[Apollo 11]] before the first landing on the Moon.<ref>[https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/12/mickey-kapp-apollo-11-astro-mixtapes Music on the Moon: Meet Mickey Kapp, Master of Apollo 11's Astro-Mixtapes]</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Diane K. Shah|title=On Q|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=November 18, 1990|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/18/magazine/on-q.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm|access-date=1 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131220224931/http://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/18/magazine/on-q.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm|archive-date=2013-12-20|url-status=live}}</ref> The song's association with Apollo 11 was reprised many years later when [[Diana Krall]] sang it at the mission's 40th anniversary commemoration ceremony,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/twan_07_24_09.html |title=NASA - NASA TV's This Week @NASA, July 24 |website=Nasa.gov |date=2009-07-24 |access-date=2016-09-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160809182616/http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/twan_07_24_09.html |archive-date=2016-08-09 |url-status=live }}</ref> and also for mission commander [[Neil Armstrong]]'s memorial service in 2012.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19592669 |title=Neil Armstrong remembered at public memorial |work=BBC News |date=September 13, 2012 |access-date=2016-09-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160729205902/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19592669 |archive-date=2016-07-29 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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