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    • Jan 31, 1974
    Elvis Presley is out of this world: "Burning Love" wakes up the crew of Skylab 4
    Mar 27, 1975
    Astronaut Thomas Stafford asks Conway Twitty to provide music he can take on the Apollo rendezvous with Russian cosmonauts. Twitty subsequently records a Russian version of "Hello Darlin'"
    Apr 8, 1975
    Conway Twitty overdubs Russian lyrics onto "Hello Darlin'" for the American/Soviet space rendezvous in August
    Jul 17, 1975
    A Russian version of Conway Twitty's "Hello Darlin'" plays internationally when American astronauts dock in outer space with Soviet cosmonauts. Twitty watches from a motel room in Oakland, California
    Jul 24, 1975
    Jerry Jeff Walker's "Up Against The Wall Redneck Mother" is used as a wakeup call for astronauts in the Apollo-Soyuz test program
    Mar 23, 1982
    Willie Nelson's Columbia Records single "On The Road Again" wakes up the crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia
    Mar 28, 1982
    NASA uses Dave Dudley's "Six Days On The Road" to wake up astronauts on the Space Shuttle Columbia
    Nov 16, 1982
    On the day they're set to return to Edwards Air Force Base in California, Columbia Space Shuttle astronauts wake to John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads"
    Apr 7, 1984
    Johnny Cash's "A Boy Named Sue" is used as a wakeup call for the crew of the Challenger Space Shuttle
    Oct 11, 1984
    Challenger Space Shuttle astronauts receive a familiar wakeup call from NASA: John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads"



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