For decades, NASA has woken up its astronauts with music

The World | Apr 17, 2015
Space Oddity, Rocket Man, It's a Wonderful World, Brown-eyed Girl, La Cucuracha, all of those songs have at one time been piped up to space. NASA astronauts have a tradition of waking up with music.

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