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Wakeup Calls
NOTE: Information obtained from
| Flight Day | Date | Song | Artist | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 3/23/82 | “On the Road Again” | Willie Nelson | |
| 3 | 3/24/82 | “Marine Corps Hymn” | ||
| 4 | 3/25/82 | The Air Force Song “Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder” | Played for pilot C. Gordon Fullerton, an Air Force colonel, who commented: “That will get us off to a fast start.” | |
| 5 | 3/26/82 | “Sail Away” | Christopher Cross | |
| 6 | 3/27/82 | The Columbia played for the flight control team, “I'm Sitting On Top of the World” and the flight team played for Columbia “Those Magnificent Men and Their Flying Machines” | ||
| 7 | 3/28/82 | “Six Days on the Road and I’m Gonna Make It Home Tonight” | Dave Dudley | NASA stretched the lyrics to make it eight days instead of six...”OK, that’s good music, Houston,” Lousma told capsule communicator Brewster Shaw, who had a radio station make a change in the tape. |
| 8 | 3/29/82 | The flight team played for Columbia “This is My Country” and Columbia played for the flight control team “Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder” and the “Marine Corps Hymn” |