The Penetration of Star Trek

Yesterday (March 7th) the crew of Space Shuttle Discovery and the current crew of the ISS received a Star Trek themed wakeup call. The song used was the original Star Trek theme song. The song was voted on by the public and therefore chosen.

This mission also marks the last of Discovery's flights. In accordance with this the song received a modified voiceover. The voiceover was recorded by William Shatner himself.

You can have a listen for yourself here (1.1MB MP3).

Star Trek always has and always will have some kind of influence on our space programs .

yea i heard this over the radio ^.^ though i woulda rather woken up to something more star wars..

i wont say much else ^.^ cool they get like a custom wake up noise.. might have to download a couple wake up mp3's to my ipod and put the alarm on haha that would be great

I'm glad I'm not the only one! A great choice of words by our dear leader.

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What has really shaped science and space travel is our own curiosity of the unknown. That very same curiosity has created all the science fiction shows, movies, games, etc. that we all know and love today. I think it's hard to attribute how much of an effect one intangible has had on another intangible.

and how the episode of kirk opening his communicator helped to create the brick.