# STS-26 Wakeup Call- Robin Williams and Space Shuttle Discovery

On Sep. 30, 1988, the Space Shuttle Discovery crew started its day with a wakeup call from actor Robin Williams. STS-26 Commander Frederick H. Hauck, Pilot Richard Covey, Mission Specialists Mike Lounge, Pinky Nelson and David Hilmers received the traditional wake-up call on their first day in orbit on a mission to deploy NASA Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-3, part of a network of satellites that support numerous NASA satellites and human spacecraft, including the International Space Station. Astronaut spacecraft communicators, or CAPCOMS, Kathy Sullivan (currently the leader of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and Kathy Thornton, relayed the message from Mission Control in Houston.

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2014
- Runtime: 1 min
- By: NASA Johnson
- Genres: Space
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:STS-26_Wakeup_Call-_Robin_Williams_and_Space_Shuttle_Discovery.webm)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: NASA Johnson
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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