STS-133 "Star Trek" Wakeup Call

William Shatner, who played Captain James T. Kirk on the original Star Trek television series, provided a special message to the crew of space shuttle Discovery during the Flight Day 12 wakeup call.
As Alexander Courage's theme song played underneath, Shatner replaced the original television introduction with, "Space, the final frontier. These have been the voyages of the Space Shuttle Discovery. Her 30 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."
The "Theme from Star Trek" received the second most votes in a public contest from a Top 40 list for NASA's Song Contest. The top two songs with the most votes from that list earned a slot on the list to wake Discovery's crew during its final mission. The total number of votes cast during the four-month contest for STS-133 was 2,463,774. Of that, Star Trek received 671,134 votes (27.2 percent). Shatner recorded the new, special introduction for Discovery's final voyage -- its 39th flight and 13th to the International Space Station.

[@LickWilmerding]

Wonderful!!!! Thank you for making this - brought tears of joy and pride in these men, and brought tears of sadness that the program is ending

[@daheels5280]

My favorite shuttle is Discovery and my favorite sci-fi is Star Trek. So this is like heaven.

[@Anonymoose]

The Star Trek theme is perfect, and William Shatner's twist on the original intro was both a surprise, and a great dedication. Superb!!

[@mtfgamma6257]

I just realized Shuttle Discovery got most of the gems of the wakeup calls

[@lorendavidsonmusic]

Constellation was underfunded by every Congress since 2004, and the costs bloated over time as the contractors decided to use it as a gravy train. The Augustine Commission did the math, and proved that unless funding was *drastically* increased, we would not get back to the Moon before 2028 or so. And the gap between the last Shuttle flight and the first manned Ares flight to the ISS would have been at least six years long. Or longer. SpaceX can do it 2 yrs sooner for lots less money.

[@HippieGirl54]

TO HAVE GOOD MEMORIES...anchored in this song from Star Trek, is the best way to remember these shuttle events...pause, reflect, and then, MOVE FORWARD...we ain't seen NOTHIN' YET...OUR SKIES ARE GOING TO BE THE CENTER OF EVENTS....AND WE WILL BE A PART OF A WHOLE NEW STAR TREK!!

[@toocoolforu]

This shuttle is from the 70s because Discovery is in fact "very disco"

[@BurnabyAlex]

Thanks for doing that Shatner!

[@TheGhostOfSabotage]

Nature be with you Discovery! :)

[@TheFreyMan]

Thank you William Shatner :D Thanks to our bold and adventurous astronauts should go without saying!!!!

[@geezdude20]

Awesome

[@Enatbyte]

That was great.

[@joohan20]

It is agreeable!

[@kcorbin11]

That was cool!

[@erismo23]

In astronomical terms, we haven't explored anything.
You could just as easily play this music when a dog is exploring his yard wearing a shock collar. It's the same difference (although the dog isn't in zero-gee or vacuum).

[@AddiscovideoDe]

Great =)

[@131kimber]

Now that was money well spent.

[@the2belo]

Shat... *forever*.

[@lorendavidsonmusic]

@WaylanL George W. Bush cancelled the Shuttle program in 2004. Look it up if you don't believe me.

[@worldwildwest]

Fred Flintstone meet mr Rogers

[@Hotchilipepprz4]

@hantonr Actually, didnt obama cancel the program. Bush said for years that he was for the space shuttle program. Either way, it should never have been shut down.

[@HazeGreyAndUnderway]

The shuttle program could not be sustained anymore by the budget. If you want to blame someone, blame congress for bloating the military budget while we needlessly bombed poor goat herders and children in the Middle East.

[@gromm225]

@Skettimon well actually i live in cape canaveral, my dads worked on the shuttle and space program for over 15 years now, and i was interested in doing the same thing when i was older, but instead obama has shut down not just the shuttle but pretty much the entire space program and my parents are out of a job so yeah what obamas doing DOES effect me.

[@CavySong]

Too bad the Constellation program that Bush hoped would replace the aging shuttle program got scrapped by Obama. I hope that privatization causes some innovation.