Fifty years ago today, Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Roger Chaffee, and Edward White gave their lives in the first steps of mankind's journey to the stars. Let's not let their sacrifice be in vain.

@camohawk6703

5 жыл бұрын

my grandmother knew all the astronauts of Apollo and their deaths hit her hard.

"it could have been [list of people who are dead now anyways]" ... that hit hard :(

@blueninja012

7 ай бұрын

buzz aldrin's still around

@shannon9993

7 ай бұрын

it's... a song that'll need changed lyrics over time. and that'd be the right way to do it, y'know? I feel like that would be faithful to the point of the song.

@arcadiaberger9204

6 ай бұрын

@@shannon9993 Well, Armstrong, Glenn, &alia didn't die while making their flights, though.

Melody--"The Ballad of Springhill", by Peggy Seeger and Ewan McColl (about the 1958 coal mine disaster in Springhill, Nova Scotia).

They who forget the past repeat it.

@GeorgeTSLC

3 жыл бұрын

@johnmburt1960 The honor or the indignity.

"It's worth the price, they said who paid" is a far nobler proposition than our civilization operates on today. Today, we say "It's worth the price, they said who DID NOT pay"

thanks, never knew that!

When you sing of *_Columbia_* or the *_Eagle_* And reach for the stars as your ultimate goal Recall who fell along the way For the star-road takes a fearful toll The star-road takes a fearful toll And it might have been Armstrong, Aldrin, Cernan, Shepard, Carpenter, Cooper or Glenn They all knew well the Questor's fee And the star-road's paved with the lives of men The star-road's paved with the lives of men For the price was paid on a Winter evening When "Fire in the spacecraft!" somebody said In smoke and flame the shadow passed And in Capsule Twelve three men were dead In capsule Twelve three men were dead Forget not yet who paid the forfeit To conquer the stars in the *_Eagle's_* flight "It's worth the price", they said, who paid Grissom, Chaffee and Edward White Grissom, Chaffee and Edward White

@blueninja012

Жыл бұрын

first of all, thank you so much for this second, in the third verse it's "somebody said," not "someone"

@arcadiaberger9204

Жыл бұрын

@@blueninja012 I copied and pasted from a web site's posted lyrics, so somebody sang it that way, but I changed it.

@blueninja012

Жыл бұрын

@@arcadiaberger9204 okay

The song is actually in E dorian, not D dorian. Other than that, I love the song!

Misty Lackey is more formally Mercedes Lackey, who has written ... a good deal else.

@arcadiaberger9204

Жыл бұрын

Kind of funny to see Mercedes Lackey listed as "Misty", but things happen.

@ToujoursPurSang

6 ай бұрын

@@arcadiaberger9204 She's gone by Misty in the past and a large portion of her readers do refer to her as such. She used the name in a short story where her characters confront her. There's also a character in the Exiles series who's name Myste who seems to be partially based off of Mercedes Lacky.

@arcadiaberger9204

6 ай бұрын

@@ToujoursPurSang Worth knowing, thanks.