Help NASA Choose Wakeup Music for Final Shuttle Missions

by Nancy Atkinson on August 20, 2010

It’s the one kind of cheesy thing we all listen for each day of a shuttle mission: the wake up song. With only a few space shuttle missions left on the manifest, NASA has decided to enlist the help of the public to help choose the songs that will wake up the astronauts for STS-133 – currently scheduled for a November 1, 2010 launch — and STS-134, slated to launch on February 26, 2011. Not only can you choose from previously played popular songs, but those of you musically inclined can write a song and submit it.

See the NASA website for more details.

The deadline is January 10, 2011.


Nancy Atkinson is Universe Today's Senior Editor. She also is the host of the NASA Lunar Science Institute podcast and works with the Astronomy Cast and 365 Days of Astronomy podcasts. Nancy is also a NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador.

  • Spoodle58

    Magic Carpet Ride would be a great choice. :)

  • Maxwell

    “Walking on the moon” by Sting.
    -_-

  • LittleGreenMen

    “One More Astronaut”

    by I Mother Earth

    Unfortunately not a choice on Nasa’s website.

  • Mister T

    Jimi’s Star Spangled Banner should be the Standard!!

    Solsbury Hill

    Children of the Sun

    Switching to Glide

    The theme from Roger Ramjet

    The theme from The Jetsons…Lost in space…My Favorite Martian… I dream of Jeannie…

  • darthwader

    There is only one choice, The Final Countdown.

  • IVAN3MAN_AT_LARGE

    There’s only one tune appropriate for a space mission: Space March (Capsule In Space).
    :cool:

  • Mister T

    I forgot the best one!!

    The Big Bang Theory!!!

  • Paul Eaton-Jones

    Virtually anything by Hawkwind including – ‘Silver Machine’/'Time We Left This World Today’/'Uncle Sam’s On Mars’/the whole of The Space Ritual etc. etc.

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