Wherever you have humans performing together, morale will be a huge factor in how well they perform.

Space shanties will be up for ensuring that the crew will feel like one, build a team spirit and make them feel like a single body.

I was once talking with an acquaintance who at the time was sergeant in a training camp for the army: he was telling me that singing the same song while undergoing the same training (no matter how gross, sexist and racist the song was) was a huge help in building the body spirit and turn a bunch of individuals into a group willing to fight for each other.

Wherever you have humans performing together, morale will be a huge factor in how well they perform.

Space shanties will be up for ensuring that the crew will feel like one, build a team spirit and make them feel like a single body.

I was once talking with an acquaintance who at the time was sergeant in a training camp for the army: he was telling me that singing the same song while undergoing the same training was a huge help in building the body spirit and turn a bunch of individuals into a group willing to fight for each other.