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Songs related to space and the celestial bodies it contains.

Central theme

• All Alone - "Once upon a time they sent a rocket to the moon"
• A Shooting Star Is Not A Star
• Ballad Of Davy Crockett (In Outer Space)
• Battle For The Planet Of The Apes
• Battle For The Planet Of They Might Be Giants
• Beneath The Planet Of The Apes
• Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes
• Destination Moon
• Escape From The Planet Of The Apes
• For Science - "There has been a spacecraft sighted"
• Gone To The Moon
• How Many Planets?
• Mission Control
• Moving To The Sun
• Nightgown Of The Sullen Moon
• Planet Of The Apes
• Return To The Planet Of The Apes
• Rocket Ship
• See The Constellation
• Space Krickets
• Space Jam
• Space Suit
• The Sun Is On Fire
• To The Bubblecraft
• Towson - the protagonist is from another planet
• Ultimate Battle For The Planet Of The Apes
• What Bothers The Spaceman?
• Why Does The Sun Shine?
• Why Does The Sun Really Shine?

Briefly mentioned

• '85 Radio Special Thank You - "Bill chipped a tooth skywriting far above the planet Earth"
• (She Was A) Hotel Detective In The Future - "Alone in my wormhole"
• About Me - "You might be staring at the stars"
• Can't Keep Johnny Down - "Hitting golf balls on the moon"
• CATENAS MEAS AMISI - (transl.) "Stars in their courses"
• Complete Paranoia - "Messages written in heavenly bodies"
• D & W - "Half a moon"
• Dallas - "Tell the moon you've seen the serpent"
• E Eats Everything - "E's eating on a spaceship"
• Everything Right Is Wrong (1984 Demo) - Features samples of Neil Armstrong's 'One Small Step' speech.
• Extra Krispy - "We're floating through space..."
• Fake-Believe (Type B) - "My space helmet's on" etc.
• Fibber Island - "Our friends live on Mars"
• Fun Assassin - "Lost in Space"
• Gigantor Intro - "Gigantor the space-age robot"
• The Guitar - "In the spaceship, the silver spaceship". The Outer Planet mixes feature samples of Neil Armstrong's 'One Small Step' speech and Nixon's call to Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon.
• Homunculus - "Your old star map"
• Infinity - "Race to the moon and back again"
• Iowa - "Silhouette on the moon"
• Last Wave - "A dance with a carcass in space"
• Let's Get This Over With - "All the while the planet circles 'round the Sun"
• Louisiana - "Although I'm glad that Louisiana is a place, so I don't have to spin in dark and empty space"
• Meet The Elements - "Stars are mostly hydrogen"
• Mr. Hughes Says - "Tell the alien and the chimp", "Tell the stars and tell the sky"
• Or So I Have Read - "If you swallowed up the planet / You would be a wiser man", "For now I know why skeletons / Are up in outer space", "Microscopic astronauts / Will land on your head"
• Photosynthesis - "Plants take in light from the sun"
• Pittsburgh - "Where we're falling into space"
• Pretty Fly - "Into the sky, into the moon"
• Ratcatcher Day - "Sun coming down on the traps", "Moon coming up in the sky"
• Science Is Real - "From astrophysics to The Big Bang"
• The Shadow Government - "Looked in the sky, saw with my eye: the moon was following me"
• She's An Angel - "I heard they had a space program"
• Stone Cold Coup D'État - "The stars got together and extinguished the moon and sun"
• Speed And Velocity - "Rocket ship / Into outer space"
• Tesla - "Here is a mind that can see across space"
• Twisting - "She's not your satellite"
• The World Before Later On - "Where's our space face?"
• You'll Miss Me - "You'll see my teeth in the stars above"

Honorable mention

• The Apollo 18 album cover
• The video for The Statue Got Me High

See also:

• International Space Year
• 93 Million Miles