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Kyle Herring of the Johnson Space Center joins us for an update on NASA’s “Space Rock” song contest. We hear some of the new songs that made it to the contest’s semifinal round. Winning songs will be used to wake up astronauts on the final mission of the space shuttle program later this month.

Better known for launching rockets, NASA recently launched two contests that will determine the music used to wake up astronauts on the final two missions of the space shuttle program. Today: Kyle Herring of the Johnson Space Center joins us to talk about the contests and NASA's use of wake-up music, which dates back to the Apollo program.