calls NASA began a tradition of playing music to astronauts during the Gemini program, which was first used to wake up a flight crew during Apollo 15. Each track is specially chosen, often by their families, and usually has a special meaning to an individual member of the crew, or is applicable to their daily activities. Contingency mission STS-326 was the designation given to the Contingency Shuttle Crew Support mission which would have been launched in the event that Discovery became disabled during STS-124. It would have been a modified version of the STS-126 mission of Endeavour'', which would have involved the launch date being brought forward. The crew for this mission would have been a four-person subset of the full STS-126 crew, namely: Christopher Ferguson – Commander Eric A. Boe – Pilot Stephen G. Bowen – Mission Specialist, extravehicular 2 Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper – Mission Specialist, extravehicular 1 Media References External links Official NASA Space Shuttle Page, includes images and data, constantly updated as STS-124 progresses NASA's official STS-124 Launch Blog NASA-TV: NASA's Television Station Which Will Broadcast the Mission of STS-124 from Mission Control in Houston and Space Up to the minute status updates for STS-124 mission updates page on spaceflightnow.com STS-124 Official Flight Kit manifest page on collectspace.com Space Shuttle missions Spacecraft launched in 2008 Spacecraft which reentered in 2008 Articles containing video clips