Grammy nominee Brandon Heath aboard shuttle

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Bran­don Heath, who won numer­ous Dove Awards this past year, is in space, with his song “Give Me Your Eyes” rid­ing along with the Endeav­or crew. Pho­to by Eliza Marie Somers

Bran­don Heath is out of this world, lit­er­al­ly.

Ter­ry Virts, the pilot of the shut­tle Endeav­or, is a fan of Heath and on his first shut­tle mis­sion the astro­naut picked Heath’s song “Give Me Your Eyes” to wake up the crew on its sec­ond day in space. Here’s the link to the NASA wake-up call. Heath was also at the night launch of the shut­tle with the Virts’ fam­i­ly.

I’m still geek­ing out over this, it’s the coolest thing ever,” Heath said in a state­ment.

Along with the space trib­ute, the mul­ti­ple Dove Award win­ner and Gram­my nom­i­nee received an Emmy Award this week for “Give Me Your Eyes,” which was used in Nashville’s Res­cue Mis­sion’s Hunger for Hope 2009 PSA cam­paign.

Con­grats, Bran­don.

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