{"id":801547,"date":"2026-04-07T05:10:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T10:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=801547"},"modified":"2026-04-07T05:10:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T10:10:30","slug":"the-history-of-the-out-of-this-world-playlist-nasa-uses-to-wake-up-mission-crews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=801547","title":{"rendered":"The history of the out-of-this-world playlist NASA uses to wake up mission crews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s become a tradition: NASA&#8217;s ground control plays music to wake up the astronauts on a mission. NASA&#8217;s chief historian Brian Odom shares the history of the practice.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/04\/07\/nx-s1-5775777\/the-history-of-the-out-of-this-world-playlist-nasa-uses-to-wake-up-mission-crews?rand=771664\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s become a tradition: NASA&#8217;s ground control plays music to wake up the astronauts on a mission. NASA&#8217;s chief historian Brian Odom shares the history of the practice. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":800048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-801547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-npr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=801547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/800048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=801547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=801547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=801547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}