misplaced footwear, Use of music to awaken astronauts on space...

Use of music to awaken astronauts on space missions dates back at least to the Apollo Program, when astronauts returning from the Moon were serenaded by their colleagues in mission control with lyrics from popular songs that seemed appropriate to the occasion. The Apollo 15 crew, whose spacecraft was named “America,” was awakened one morning with a segment of “The City of New Orleans” beginning with the lyrics, “Good morning America, how are you?” Several crews have awakened on their final day in space to Dean Martin‟s popular song “Going Back to Houston.

- Chronology of Wakeup Calls, a constantly updated document of wakeup music played for all NASA missions to date, manned or unmanned. Yes, the Mars rovers all got their own wakeup music.