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HOUSTON – The astronauts on the expanse shuttle Endeavour woke up this daytime to a strain that was written specially for the gathering who are air the equipment on its test mission.

A NASA oppose sought example strain entries to rouse the astronauts during Endeavour's STS-134 flight. The rivalry conventional 1,350 submissions, and NASA selected 10 songs as finalists before opening it up to sextet weeks of open voting. [The Astronaut's Playlist: Groovy Songs for Space Travelers]

"More than 1.5 meg votes were patch to determine the first and ordinal locate songs," NASA officials said.

The ordinal locate winner, "Dreams You Give" by Brian Plunkett from Halfway, Mo., earned 612,959 votes, or 38.8 percent. Plunkett's strain was played at 6:57 p.m. EDT (2257 GMT) tonight (May 30) to consequence up Endeavour's six-astronaut crew.

"We're hunting nervy to added laboring period and hopefully effort bag tomorrow," Endeavour's commander Mark Kelly said after being woken with the tune. "That strain was the ordinal locate succeeder in the wakeup music contest. Congratulations to Brian Plunkett from Halfway, Mo."

The first locate winner, "Sunrise Number 1" by Jorge Otero and the adornment Stormy Mondays from Oviedo, Spain, module be played at 5:56 p.m. EDT (2156 GMT) on weekday (May 31), the period before the astronauts convey to Earth.

The winning strain conventional 787,725 votes, or 49.8 proportionality of the amount ballots cast. Public voting for the oppose ran from March 29 through May 16.

Kelly, airman Greg President and assignment specialists Mike Fincke, Andrew Feustel, Greg Chamitoff and Roberto Vittori are on the terminal leg of their 16-day mission. The astronauts are scheduled to realty at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 2:35 a.m. EDT (0635 GMT) on Wednesday, June 1.

Endeavour launched on its test grace to the International Space Station on May 16. The equipment delivered a $2 billion astrophysics research and extra supplies to the send to support posture the orbiting outpost for the eld mass the modify of the shuttle program. Endeavour's gathering conducted four spacewalks to raise the massive Byzantine in space.

After this flight, NASA module start only one more expanse shuttle mission. The shuttle Atlantis module displace soured July 8 to twine up the 30-year expanse shuttle program.

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