{be on the look out for the backhaul of the concert feed tonight}
RELEASE: 05-406
Paul McCartney Provides First-Ever Live Station Wakeup Music
The International Space Station crew, 220 miles above Earth, will
receive a special live musical wakeup call from Paul McCartney Sunday
during a first-ever concert linkup.
The wakeup will come from McCartney's "US" Tour performance at the
Anaheim, Calif., Arrowhead Pond. McCartney plans to play two songs,
"Good Day Sunshine" and "English Tea," for NASA Astronaut Bill McArthur
and Russian Cosmonaut Valery Tokarev. This is the first time a live
concert will be linked to a U.S. spacecraft.
The call will take place at 12:55 a.m. EST, Sunday, Nov. 13 (9:55 p.m.
PST, Nov. 12) as the concert is nearing its end; and McArthur and
Tokarev are awakening for the 44th day of their six month mission in
space. It will be broadcast live on NASA TV, with video expected of
McArthur and Tokarev and audio from both locations.
During his tour, McCartney has paid tribute to the crew of Space Shuttle
Discovery's STS-114 mission, a flight to the space station last summer.
On Aug. 9, the Beatles' classic "Good Day Sunshine" was played as a
wakeup call for Discovery's crew because of a favorable weather forecast
for landing that morning.
"I was extremely proud to find out that one of my songs was played for
the crew of Discovery this summer," McCartney said. "In our concert we
hope to repay the favor." McCartney is nearing the end of his 11-week
"US" tour.
"Since people were first awakened on the moon by mission control, wakeup
songs have been a space tradition to brighten the crew's day and get
them off to a great start," said astronaut Eileen Collins, who commanded
Discovery. "We're honored that Paul McCartney will be a part of this
historic delivery of music for Bill and Valery. It will surely give them
a big boost as they continue through their research mission."
McArthur and Tokarev are the 12th crew of the station, which has had a
continuous human presence for more than five years. The station has an
internal volume larger than an average three-bedroom house and includes
the most sophisticated space laboratory ever flown.
NASA TV's Public, Education and Media channels are available on an
MPEG-2 digital C-band signal accessed via satellite AMC-6, at 72 degrees
west longitude, transponder 17C, 4040 MHz, vertical polarization. In
Alaska and Hawaii, they're on AMC-7 at 137 degrees west longitude,
transponder 18C, at 4060 MHz, horizontal polarization. A Digital Video
Broadcast compliant Integrated Receiver Decoder is required for
reception. For digital downlink information for each NASA TV channel and
access to NASA TV's Public Channel on the Web, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
For more information about the space station and the crew's mission on
the Web, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/station
For more information about McCartney, visit:
http://www.paulmccartney.com
For information about NASA and agency programs on the Web, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/home
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