SPACE SHUTTLE MUSIC - Solar System Exploration - Nasa

STS-41-B February 3-11, 1984
2/4/84 Wake-up music had been planned to be a selection from the “Contraband,” that group of NASA
employees and would have featured Ron McNair, astronaut Ron McNair on the tenor sax, but that
somehow got garbled in the translation going up.
From STS-41-B AIR/GROUND TRANSCRIPT
2/5/84 “A Train” by “Contraband” which features as its tenor sax player, Dr. Ron McNair
2/6/84 "Glory, Glory, Colorado" by the University of Colorado Band. That's the fight song of that
institution which is Vance Brand's alma mater followed by "Ride High You Mustangs" the
Cal Poly State University fight song which is Pilot Robert Gibson’s alma mater.
2/7/84 Wake up music was an armed forces medley which covered three of the services.
The Marine Corp., of course is Vance Brand's alma mater. He's now a civilian but was originally
trained as a Marine Corps pilot. The Navy hymn in honor of Mission Specialist, Bruce McCandless and
Challenger Pilot, Hoot Gibson, both Naval Officers. And the Army song honoring the nation's first
United States Army Astronaut, Bob Stewart. And the music was performed by guess who, the U.S. Air
Force Academy Chorale.
From STS-41-B AIR/GROUND TRANSCRIPT
2/8/84 North Carolina A&T University alma mater of which Mission Specialist Ron McNair is an alumnus and
"Southern to the Top", the fight song from the University of Southern Mississippi, the alma mater of
Mission Specialist Bob Stewart.
From STS-41-B AIR/GROUND TRANSCRIPT
2/9/84 “Theme from ‘The Greatest American Hero’” in honor of that day’s EVA. With some changed
verses
2/10/84 A live rendition of The Air Force Song (“Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder”) from all
the Air Force CAPCOMs.
2/11/84 “In the Mood” by “Contraband”, a musical group composed of JSC employees.
STS-41-C April 6-13, 1984
4/7/84 “A Boy Named Sue” by Johnny Cash.
4/8/84 Fight song of the University of California at Berkeley” followed by the
Lehigh University Fight Song. The first in honor of Ox van Hoften, the
second in honor of T. J. Hart.
4/9/84 Unidentified
SPACECRAFT Morning, John, and that's exactly the way we feel, like we're walking on air. (Response
to unidentified wakeup call) From STS-41-C AIR/GROUND TRANSCRIPT
4/10/84 Theme from “Rocky”
4/11/84 No wakeup music sent
4/12/84 Unidentified
Mission Control Houston, that harmonious wake up music performed by CAPCOM's Guy
Gardner, and John Blaha with the aid of planning team Payload Officer Rob Kelso.
From STS-41-C AIR/GROUND TRANSCRIPT
4/13/84 Fight songs from the University of Texas, for mission commander, Bob Crippen, and the
University of Arizona for Pilot, Dick Scobee.
STS-41-D August 30-September 5, 1984
8/31/84 “Anchors Aweigh”
9/1/84 “Telstar” by The Ventures
9/2/84 “Top of the World”
9/3/84 Unidentified
9/4/84 Unidentified
9/5/84 No wakeup call sent because crew woke early to handle a cryo leak.
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