On the day of Discovery ’s final return to Earth , its crew and the crew of the International Space Station had an amazingwake up callfrom Captain James T. Kirk himself .
I ’m sure the astronauts express mirth with this one — while trying to adjudge their emotions in their last mission day .
NASA ’s functionary wake up timeline starts with the Gemini 6A mission , which run short from December 15 to December 16 , 1965 . Ground control sent Hello Dolly sing by Jack Jones . Gemini 7 — which launched on December 4 and was assemble by Gemini 6A in the first man orbital rendezvous — got a lot more wake up calls during it ’s 13 and a one-half day in distance , pop out with some Hawaiian medicine sent on December 6 — the very first wake up call . The next day they got Beethoven ’s sixth Symphony . The next it was Sinatra ’s High Hopes .
On December 9 , NASA played a special asking from the Jim Lovell ’s 12 - yo daughter Barbara : I Saw Mommie Kissing Santa Claus . The minor reckon the song will make the pappa come down to Earth in time for Christmas .
And from there , the custom started . Every genre has played in space , from the rock classics to all kind of pop , state , classic medicine , malarky , and bossa nova vocal .
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Sometimes it were the crews who play wake up up music down to mission control , like when the crew of Apollo 10 — Commander Thomas P. Stafford , Command Module Pilot John W. Young and Lunar Module Pilot Eugene A. Cernan — shine Sinatra ’s Come Fly With Me . Other times NASA throw especial wake up up song for especial occasions . This was one of them .
I ’m happy Shatner did n’t sing Rocketman .
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