The public is invited to vote for its favorite original song to wake up the crew of STS-134 during their up coming mission.

There’s  been over 1,350 songs submitted by songwriters and performers from around the world.

A song contest was held from August 20, 2010 to January 31, 2011 and the submissions were winnowed down to the final ten and the winners were notified on February 18th.

Here they are:

• “Boogie Woogie Shuttle,” by Ryan McCullough (Savannah, Ga.)
• “Dreams You Give,” by Brian Plunkett (Halfway, Mo.)
• “Endeavour, It’s a Brand New Day,” by Susan Rose Simonetti (Cocoa Beach, Fla.)
• “I Need My Space,” by Stan Clardy (Statesville, N.C.)
• “I Want to Be an Astronaut,” by Michael J. Kunes (Phoenix)
• “Just Another Day in Space,” by Kurt Lanham (Jacksonville, Fla.)
• “Rocket Scientist,” by Tray Eppes (Cullen, Va.)
• “Spacing Out,” by Jeremy Parsons (Nashville, Tenn.)
• “Sunrise Number 1,” by Jorge Otero (Ovideo, Spain)
• “The Countdown Blues (Hymn for Tim),” by Sharon Riddell (Nashville, Tenn.)

The TWO songs with the most votes from the public will be the first two original songs to be played as wake up music for a shuttle crew.

So let’s get over to NASA’s Space Rock and vote.

Also NASA is running a Face in Space opportunity, want to find out more?  Visit the Face in Space site.

The image comes from the Extras and Originality portion of a AMC Pacer page.

Scary part is I remember both!