Artemis II astronauts woke to Mandisa and TobyMac's 'Good Morning'.

NASA Mission Control played Mandisa and TobyMac's 2011 song 'Good Morning' as a wake-up track for the Artemis II crew, and NASA has been using wake-up songs for astronauts since 1965.

NASA Mission Control at the Johnson Space Center sends a wake-up song to the four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft. For one day of the 10-day Artemis II mission, the crew was awakened with Mandisa and TobyMac's 2011 song "Good Morning." Mandisa Hundley was a Fisk University alum who rose to fame on Season Five of American Idol and won a Grammy in 2014. News broke of her sudden death in April 2024, and autopsies reported her death as natural, due to complications of class III obesity. Known details: - The Johnson Space Center's Mission Control selects wake-up music to mark the end of a crew sleep period. - Mandisa and TobyMac's song "Good Morning" is included on the Artemis II wake-up playlist. - Artemis II is a 10-day mission and NASA adds one song for each day of the flight. - Mandisa Hundley was found dead on April 18, 2024, in her Franklin home; subsequent autopsy reports attributed her death to complications of class III obesity. - NASA has used wake-up songs for astronauts since 1965; the first recorded wake-up song was "Hello, Dolly" by Jack Jones. Summary: The selection of Mandisa and TobyMac's song is part of Mission Control's practice of using music to mark daily routines aboard Artemis II. The wake-up playlist will be updated with one song per mission day during the 10-day flight. The broader practice of wake-up music traces back to NASA's early missions in 1965.