‘Sunrise Number 1’ to Awaken Astronauts

May 24, 2011 – Are you one of those people who hit snooze a couple of times each morning before you roll out of bed? It could be because you just don’t have the right wake-up song to listen to. But the STS-134 astronauts onboard the space shuttle Endeavour won’t have that problem. That’s because nearly 1.6 million people cast their vote for an original song to wake them up. "Sunrise Number 1" by Jorge Otero and the band Stormy Mondays from Oviedo, Spain, earned first place in NASA’s recent Original Song Contest. Shuttle Commander Mark Kelly, Pilot Greg H. Johnson, Mission Specialists Mike Fincke, Drew Feustel, Greg Chamitoff and Roberto Vittori of the European Space Agency will hear the song at 5:56 p.m. EDT on May 31, the day before the crew returns to Earth. "Sunrise Number 1" received 787,725 votes, or 49.8 percent of the total ballots. "Dreams You Give" by Brian Plunkett from Halfway, Missouri, earned second place with 612,959 votes, or 38.8 percent. It will wake the crew at 6:56 p.m. on May 30. The contest received 1,350 entries from which NASA selected 10 finalists. To see the all the results, click here. NASA also released the final tally of submissions to the Space Shuttle Program's "Face in Space" campaign for the STS-134 mission. Participants submitted 128,940 photos for uplink to Endeavour via the Mission Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The images will return to Earth through a data transmission, and contributors will be able to print certificates verifying their photos flew aboard Endeavour, as of June 1. More than 7,550 other photos already have been submitted to fly aboard the last shuttle mission targeted to launch July 8. Submissions will be accepted through the liftoff date. To take part in the STS-135 Face in Space campaign, visit http://faceinspace.nasa.gov.		Astronauts aboard the ISS will awaken to “Sunrise Number 1,” at 5:56 p.m. EDT on May 31. Spain’s band Stormy Mondays took first place in NASA’s “Original Song Contest” with “Sunrise Number 1.”

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