Space
Ship One
Words
and Music © 2003 Mark E. Horning
Strum,
reasonably fast, 4/4 Time, Capo 2
Chorus:
Did you hear they're
building spaceships, in the
Reliable, and cheap to
build, the race is all but won.
The doubters they can stay
behind, their day is all but done,
The rest of us are going
to the stars.
They built her as a secret, but I know they built
her well,
and have laid up carbon fiber
in a strong epoxy shell.
Aluminum and fiberglass make her light enough to
sail,
and she rides a hybrid rocket
with no turbo-pumps to fail.
Oh she's built by Scaled Composites, and good old
Burt Rutan,
and if anyone can do it, well
I know that those folks can.
And they built her under budget, with no taxpayer
funds.
The first truly private spacecraft, so they call her
Space Ship One.
High above the desert, at Edwards AFB,
The X-15 broke through the sky, the black of space
to see.
And 40 odd years later, in those self-same very
skies,
A rocket-powered ship will roar, as through the sky
she flies.
Bridge: C G Dm
A hundred years since
And Will and Orville
Wright.
She's the greatest
aviation jewel,
in a
century of Flight.
Well I know she won't make orbit, but she's over
half way there.
And once you are in orbit, you're halfway to
anywhere.
Give them another decade; they'll build cities on
the moon.
It's time to start a planin',
'cause the future starts real soon.
Pack your bags; we're
going to the stars.