Wake-up Calls
NASA began a tradition of playing music to astronauts during the Gemini program, and first used music to wake up a flight crew during Apollo 15. Each track is specially chosen, often by the astronauts' families, and usually has a special meaning to an individual member of the crew, or is applicable to their daily activities.
For STS-135, some of the wake-up calls were accompanied by greetings, from either the performing artist or NASA employees.
| Flight Day | Song | Artist | Greeting | Played for | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02 !Day 2 | "Viva la Vida" | Coldplay | Employees at the Marshall Space Flight Center | Douglas Hurley | MP3 WAV Video |
| 03 !Day 3 | "Mr. Blue Sky" | Electric Light Orchestra | Christopher Ferguson | MP3 WAV Video | |
| 04 !Day 4 | "Tubthumping" | Chumbawamba | Sandra Magnus | MP3 WAV Video | |
| 05 !Day 5 | "More" | Matthew West | Rex Walheim | MP3 WAV Video | |
| 06 !Day 6 | "Rocket Man" | Elton John | Elton John | STS-135 Crew | MP3 WAV Video |
| 07 !Day 7 | "Man on the Moon" (A cappella version) | Michael Stipe | Michael Stipe | STS-135 Crew | MP3 WAV Video |
| 08 !Day 8 | "Good Day Sunshine" | The Beatles | Paul McCartney | STS-135 Crew | Video |
| 09 !Day 9 | "Run the World (Girls)" | Beyoncé Knowles | Beyoncé Knowles | Sandra Magnus | Video |
| 10 !Day 10 | "Celebration" | Kool & the Gang | Employees at the Stennis Space Center | Sandra Magnus | WAV Video |
| 11 !Day 11 | "Days Go By" | Keith Urban | Employees at the Johnson Space Center | Rex Walheim | Video |
| 12 !Day 12 | "Don't Panic" | Coldplay | Douglas Hurley | Video | |
| 13 !Day 13 | "Fanfare for the Common Man" | Aaron Copland | Employees at the Kennedy Space Center | Christopher Ferguson | Video |
| 14 !Day 14 | "God Bless America" | Kate Smith | Shannon Lucid on behalf of all previous missions and to the people that made them happen | STS-135 Crew and "for all the men and women who put their hearts and souls into the Shuttle program for all these years" | Video |
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Famous quotes containing the word calls:
“Go, smiling souls, your new-built cages break,
In heaven you’ll learn to sing, ere here to speak,
Nor let the milky fonts that bathe your thirst
Be your delay;
The place that calls you hence is, at the worst,
Milk all the way.”
—Richard Crashaw (1613?–1649)