page_title: Fly Me to the Moon
section_title: NASA association
hierarchical_section_title: Fly Me to the Moon / NASA association
caption_attribution_description: English: Grammy Award-winning producer Quincy Jones presented a platinum copy of "Fly Me to the Moon" to Senator John Glenn and Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong during NASA's 50th anniversary gala.
context_page_description: "Fly Me to the Moon", originally titled "In Other Words", is a song written in 1954 by Bart Howard. Kaye Ballard made the first recording of the song the year it was written. Frank Sinatra's 1964 version was closely associated with the Apollo missions to the Moon.
  In 1999, the Songwriters Hall of Fame honored "Fly Me to the Moon" by inducting it as a "Towering Song".
context_section_description: Frank Sinatra's 1964 recording of "Fly Me to the Moon" became closely associated with NASA's 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, and also on Apollo 11 before the first landing on the Moon. 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, and also for mission commander Neil Armstrong's memorial service in 2012.
  The Sinatra version was also used in the 2000 NASA related fictional film Space Cowboys.
caption: Quincy Jones presents platinum copies of Frank Sinatra's album to Senator John Glenn and Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong
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