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Song Parodies -> "NASA Makes Backward Move"
Original Song Title:
"I Put a Spell on You"
(MP3)Original Performer:
Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Parody Song Title:
"NASA Makes Backward Move"
Parody Written by:
Robert D. Arndt Jr.
The Lyrics
With the launching of the space shuttle Atlantis on its last mission (shuttle 135th), the US space era is moving backwards. After a long Cold War battle with the USSR, the future journeys to the ISS will be hitched aboard Russian Soyuz capasules atop their powerful rockets. The US shuttle program after 30 years will have come to an abrupt end with no future craft available until at least 2016 and a reduced type with a crew of two for more LEO flights. The shuttles enabled astronauts to repair the Hubble telescope and make flights to the ISS but never really lived up to any real space exploration beyond those LEO limitations. With the "Back to the Moon" and Mars goals now largely cancelled by budget cuts and no new heavy lift rockets and spacecraft in sight, NASA has returned back to 1961 all over again. Russia (as FSU) took an early lead with Sputnik, Laika, Gagarin, Tereshkova, space walks, and other feats while the US caught up and then surpassed with the Apollo 11 landing on the moon, Skylab, the shuttles, and Hubble telescope. The USSR responded with Mir and the longest endurance in space. But now the main occupiers of space are satellites that the entire world rely on for communications, GPS, military recon, earth resources detection,climate changes, business transactions, and monitoring people. Like the loss of the Concorde for aviation SST flight, the loss of the shuttle program is a step backwards, not forwards...
NASA makes backward move
end of the line
Shuttle program of 30 yrs doomed
It was dyin’
No, they ain’t flyin’
Americans can’t understand it
Flights end when Atlantis hits ground
Future rides hitched from the Russians
Return to the moon, go to Mars, shut down
NASA makes backward move
end of the line
spirit still alive???
Space Race through
Space Race through
Space Race through
Satellites dominate space
Com and GPS Sats everywhere
Also vital to the military
Russians ultimately won the race
Godspeed?
NASA makes backward move
end of the line
(funding cuts, no need)
end of the line
Shuttle program of 30 yrs doomed
It was dyin’
No, they ain’t flyin’
Americans can’t understand it
Flights end when Atlantis hits ground
Future rides hitched from the Russians
Return to the moon, go to Mars, shut down
NASA makes backward move
end of the line
spirit still alive???
Space Race through
Space Race through
Space Race through
Satellites dominate space
Com and GPS Sats everywhere
Also vital to the military
Russians ultimately won the race
Godspeed?
NASA makes backward move
end of the line
(funding cuts, no need)
http://www.techshout.com/images/atlantis-space-shuttle.jpg
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I saw some reporter the other day trying to squeeze into the seat in a Soyuz. There's more room in a Mini Cooper. How are we going to resupply the Space Station from such a tiny craft? And a Russian one at that? When did our leaders stop believing in America? That is the root of most of our problems.
Maybe they thought that they couldn't "afford" another Space Shuttle blowing up, perhaps if you haven't already, you can write a parody on that? But great job on this one! 555! :-)
Space Shuttle program dates back to the late 1970s and even before in concept. IIRC, they were flying by 1981 and so the fleet's been around for a long time and did a lot of LEO work. But it never progressed and like old a/c need replacing with new models. IF there are any funds left, who knows where they will go as all plans are on hold. It was to be the X-33 type craft, but then alternate strategies emerged:
http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/cms/dn7797/dn7797-1_700.jpg
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