things to listen to instead of Artemis II live audio

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:19:42 -0400

I really enjoyed watching Artemis II lift off yesterday and immediately realized that I would also enjoy tuning into the live broadcast over the course of the mission. The YouTube feed is pretty good, but what I’d really love (and haven’t been able to find) is to find an audio-only feed that I could plug into my internet radio client and just listen to. I’m mostly interested in tuning in to the mission while working, and while the audio will make for good white noise, I don’t really need (or even want) the visuals in there.

In the absence of any live audio feed (though please let me know if you know of where to find one!), I expect I’ll spend some time today listening to other stuff that scratches a similar itch. SomaFM has the Mission Control internet radio station, which offers “mix of ambient and experimental music mixed with the historical sounds of the space program.” I’m just now learning (because I only started listening in the mid-to-late 2010s) that the station only started mixing in the sounds of the Apollo program after the Space Shuttle missions came to an end, and it surprises me that they aren’t doing Artemis II broadcasts, which would be exactly what I’m looking for.

I’m also a big fan of Public Service Broadcasting’s 2015 album The Race for Space, which samples a lot of Apollo-era recordings (among other relevant audio) into what is an excellent concept album. Listening to the “go” sequence during last night’s launch reminded me of PSB’s song “Go!”, which draws from the equivalent sequence for the Apollo 11 landing. It’s very catchy and fun to listen to.

I’m still hoping to find an audio feed for Artemis II that I can put on in the background while working over the next more-than-a-week, but I don’t know if I’ll be able to. At any rate, as I’m listening to the YouTube feed now, the crew is about to get four hours of sleep (after a conversation about how to correctly hold their microphones, which is fun to listen in to), and I expect I won’t have much to listen to during that time. Between SomaFM and Public Service Broadcasting, though, I think I’ll have enough to keep the space nerd part of my brain busy.

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things to listen to instead of Artemis II live audio