Denzel Curry is thrilled that the crew of NASA’s Artemis II played his music in space.
On Monday (April 6), NASA detailed what the Artemis II crew was up to as they woke up 236,022 miles from Earth. The crew—which consists of astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch of NASA, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen—played Denzel Curry’s 2019 collaboration with Glass Animals, “Tokyo Drifting,” as part of their morning routine.
“As our Artemis II astronauts prepare to leave the lunar sphere of influence and return to Earth’s gravitational pull, they listened to ‘Tokyo Drifting,’ by Denzel Curry and Glass Animals, as their wakeup song,” the official NASA social media accounts revealed.
In reaction to the news, Curry expressed his excitement. “Even aliens fuck with my shit!” he wrote alongside a video showing the moment the crew played the track. “First rapped played in SPACE N***A!” In a follow-up tweet, he added, “To infinity and beyond muthafucka.”
The Artemis II crew surpassed the farthest distance ever traveled from Earth on Monday, reaching a maximum distance of 252,756 miles. The previous record was set by the Apollo 13 crew in 1970. The crew is expected to return to Earth, just off the coast of San Diego, on Friday (April 10) evening. The ten-day lunar flyby mission consisted of four astronauts.
Other wakeup songs the Artemis II played during the flyby included Young & Sick’s cover of Passion Pit’s “Sleepyhead,” John Legend and André 3000’s “Green Light,” Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony Club,” and Queen and David Bowie’s “Under Pressure.”