{"id":11506,"date":"2011-03-07T12:10:35","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T20:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=11506"},"modified":"2011-03-07T12:10:35","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T20:10:35","slug":"james-t-kirk-wakes-up-shuttle-crew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2011\/03\/james-t-kirk-wakes-up-shuttle-crew\/","title":{"rendered":"James T. Kirk Wakes Up Shuttle Crew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>William Shatner<\/strong> provided the voiceover as Alexander Courage&#8217;s original series theme song woke up the crew of STS-133 Discovery this morning.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Star Trek<\/em> theme song received the second-highest number of votes in NASA&#8217;s &#8220;Space Rock&#8221; wake-up song public voting poll, in which fans chose from forty songs, with the two songs that received the highest number of votes to be played during STS-133 mission.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/STS-133Crew030711.gif\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11507\" title=\"STS-133Crew030711\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/STS-133Crew030711.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The winner of the contest was <em>Blue Sky<\/em> by Big Head Todd and the Monsters, which received 722,662 votes (29.3 percent of the votes cast). The <em>Star Trek<\/em> theme song came in second, with 671,134 votes, or 27.2 percent of the votes cast in the poll. <em>Blue Sky <\/em>will be played as the wake-up song on Tuesday, March 8.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Kirk030711.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11508\" title=\"Kirk030711\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Kirk030711.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"84\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Shatner provided the voiceover for the wake-up call, which occurred at 3:23 A.M. this morning. &#8220;Space, the final frontier,&#8221; he said. &#8220;These have been the voyages of the space shuttle Discovery. Her thirty year mission: To seek out new science. To build new outposts. To bring nations together on the final frontier. To boldly go, and do, what no spacecraft has done before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>STS-133 Discovery launched on February 24. On this mission, the astronauts are: Commander <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/STS133.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11509\" title=\"STS133\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/STS133.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><strong>Steven Lindsey<\/strong>, Pilot <strong>Eric Boe <\/strong>and Mission Specialists <strong>Alvin Drew, Michael Barratt, Steve Bowen <\/strong>and <strong>Nicole Stott<\/strong>, who will &#8220;deliver and install the Permanent Multipurpose Module, the Express Logistics Carrier 4 and provide critical spare components to the International Space Station.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The audio clip of the wake-up call can be heard <a href=\"http:\/\/cnn.com\/video\/?\/video\/tech\/2011\/03\/07\/shatner.discovery.wakeup.hln\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Shatner provided the voiceover as Alexander Courage&#8217;s original series theme song woke up the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2421],"tags":[2418,2698,2414,3554],"class_list":["post-11506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-tos","tag-kirk","tag-nasa","tag-shatner","tag-sts-133"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-tos\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: TOS<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: TOS","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11511,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11506\/revisions\/11511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}