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Wake-Up Calls for Astronauts
What do ‘Space Oddity’, ‘Brown Eyed Girl’, and ‘La Cucaracha’ have in common? All three of those songs have at one time been piped up to space. It’s NASA’s musical wake-up call tradition.
Image: Apollo 7 astronauts were, from left, Donn Eisele, Walter Schirra, and Walter Cunningham. Credit: NASA
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