Poking around the NASA site this morning, I found myself especially touched by the crew’s morning routine. Each day begins with a wake-up call—usually in musical form, and often with a recorded greeting from the artist. The crew members pick the playlist, along with friends and family. The last wake-up call of the space shuttle mission was Kate Smith’s version of Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America.” The day before: “Fanfare for the Common Man.” And the video below comes from Day 7: R.E.M.’s “Man on the Moon.” Maybe it’s just that I most loved Michael Stipe around the same time I most loved outer space, but I find something lovely in picturing the people heading up to the space station, or those waiting for them down below, selecting a song so earnestly on-point, and something moving in watching it delivered to this hunk of metal—a sci-fi movie today would have it be far sleeker—suspended above Earth.

在NASA的周围闲逛，让我感触最深的就是船员们每天早晨的例行公事。每天早晨都会有音乐叫大家起床，居多是艺术家录制的问候。船员们和他们的家人朋友们一起挑选了这些曲目。最后一天的晨起音乐是凯特史密斯的《天佑美国》。前一天是《凡人协奏曲》，而配上的音乐视频是第七天的《月亮上的人》。也许正是在我最喜欢迈克尔斯泰普的时候，我也最喜欢与外太空有关的东西，但是当我想象着那些奔赴宇宙空间站的人和那些在地球上等着他们并挑选一首恰到好处的歌曲的人时，我感受到了一些非常美好的东西；当我看着这些精心挑选的歌曲被传送到悬浮在地球上空的钢铁巨物中去时，我被感动了。

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