Minus Ten and Counting 04 - Toast for Unknown Heroes

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  • Опубликовано: 6 июн 2010
  • Julia Ecklar (www.prometheus-music.com/)
    Leslie Fish
    Doug Olsen
    Props to the lesser-known heroes whose achievements made those of the astronauts possible.
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  • @purplealice
    @purplealice 5 лет назад +227

    I'm one of those unsung heroes. I worked for the company that built the Lunar Modules. I'm very glad to have been in almost the right place at the right time.

    • @donpacificbobcat9er615
      @donpacificbobcat9er615 4 года назад +17

      Well good sir, I’ll guess I have to take your word for it. But if you are who you say you are, then a congratulations unlike any seen before is due.

    • @diestormlie
      @diestormlie 4 года назад +2

      Don't suppose you were there during Apollo 13?

    • @Tiglath-Pileser3
      @Tiglath-Pileser3 4 года назад +6

      Grumman? My neighbor worked for them, had some great stories about the space race days.

    • @purplealice
      @purplealice 4 года назад +9

      @@Tiglath-Pileser3 Grumman built a lot of other interesting flying things. If you've ever been to the Intrepid Air Sea & Space museum in NYC, an awful lot of the planes are Grumman's.

    • @Tiglath-Pileser3
      @Tiglath-Pileser3 4 года назад +5

      @@purplealice Oh yeah, my neighbor had walls covered with pictures of different planes he had worked on. As a boy who dreamed of flying, I would visit all of the time.

  • @antarcticaresearchprogram8349
    @antarcticaresearchprogram8349 6 лет назад +122

    "What makes one step a giant leap is all the steps before!"
    Bravo

  • @doctorpsycho1960
    @doctorpsycho1960 14 лет назад +77

    @greengrendel "What makes one step a giant leap is all the steps before".
    And THAT line always makes me tear up....

  • @michealfeeney8920
    @michealfeeney8920 2 года назад +18

    While my mother never worked a manned spaceflight, she has worked many other spacecraft launches. I hope that makes her an Unknown hero? I think it should!

  • @Fixerofworlds
    @Fixerofworlds 3 года назад +19

    maybe no quite as stunning as the lunar landing, but i am here to mark the successful landing of the Mars Perseverance rover
    "What makes one step a giant leap is all the steps before!"

  • @5858iris
    @5858iris 7 лет назад +153

    A man is walking on the moon with his eyes turned up toward space
    And the bright blue world that watches him reflected on his face
    The whole world sees that hero there and the module crew also
    But few can see the guiding team that guards him from below
    Step by step the longest march can be won, can be won
    Many stones can form an arch, singly none, singly none
    And together what we will can be accomplished still,
    Many drops can turn a mill, singly none, singly none
    Here's a health to the man who walked the moon, and the module crew above,
    And the team that watches from the sky with worry, joy, and love
    To all who blazed the sky-trail come raise your glasses 'round;
    And a health to the unknown heroes, too, who never left the ground
    Step by step the longest march can be won, can be won
    Many stones can form an arch, singly none, singly none
    And together what we will can be accomplished still,
    Many drops can turn a mill, singly none, singly none
    Here's a health to the ship's designers, and the welders of her seams,
    And all who man the radar-scan to watch our dawning dreams
    For all the unknown heroes, sing out to every shore:
    "What makes one step a giant leap is all the steps before!"
    Step by step the longest march can be won, can be won
    Many stones can form an arch, singly none, singly none
    And together what we will can be accomplished still,
    Many drops can turn a mill, singly none, singly none

    • @RandomNexus
      @RandomNexus 3 года назад +4

      Thanks for adding the lyrics, but there's one thing you probably couldn't know (I had the cassette & lyrics page once upon a million years ago), what you have here as 'singly none' is meant to be sine qua non. See below:
      sine qua non sĭn″ĭ kwä nŏn′, nōn′, sī″nĭ, kwā►
      n. An essential element or condition.
      n. Something absolutely necessary or indispensable; an indispensable condition: as, he made the presence of a witness a sine qua non; used attributively, indispensable; necessary.
      n. An essential or indispensable element, condition, or ingredient.
      My take on it is that there may be many components to a larger thing that seem inconsequential alone, but together are indispensable in achieving the greater goal. When we all work together, we can do amazing things that couldn't have been accomplished by any of us alone.💜

    • @ethanweller3013
      @ethanweller3013 2 года назад +2

      @@RandomNexus While I like your message, the image of the video says singly

    • @eggisfun4217
      @eggisfun4217 Год назад

      its a remaster of step by step?

  • @rairarku2964
    @rairarku2964 4 года назад +73

    Well, April 2020 fels as good a time as any to return to this song...
    *sigh*
    Now, let's get to building that arch, shall we?

    • @andrewmiffitt7973
      @andrewmiffitt7973 3 года назад +10

      Well, April 2021 feels as good a time as any to return to this song...
      Let’s build that arch, eh?

    • @rairarku2964
      @rairarku2964 3 года назад +5

      @@andrewmiffitt7973 bloody hell, I hate the fact that a year has passed and all that's happened is race war and president war

    • @johndoe-uy4ol
      @johndoe-uy4ol 3 года назад

      US20060145019A1 we have some

    • @PrimordialNightmare
      @PrimordialNightmare 2 года назад +3

      @@andrewmiffitt7973 December 2021 and a couple of awful companies folded to strikes. That Arch is certainly being built.

    • @frostyelkk
      @frostyelkk 2 года назад +1

      @@rairarku2964
      Two years now. It will come in time.

  • @spacecorpse3212
    @spacecorpse3212 4 года назад +30

    without the ground crew those hero's wouldn't exist at all that goes for those dashing pilots and brave spacemen

    • @michalsoukup1021
      @michalsoukup1021 3 года назад +2

      Some early pilots were their own "ground crews" plane manufacturers, and constructors as well. I place those guys shoulder to shoulder with Astronauts, I sure know I would not take off in a plane from before WWI.

    • @spacecorpse3212
      @spacecorpse3212 3 года назад +1

      @@michalsoukup1021 again they needed a ground crew even if that ground crew was themselves

  • @MichalSoukup1995
    @MichalSoukup1995 8 лет назад +34

    I was prasied by both teatcher, and headmaster for being best of my class at Finals, I remembered this, and said, that It was a team efort, and that lot of people in class, and outside helped me to climb that ladder.

  • @doctorpsycho1960
    @doctorpsycho1960 14 лет назад +13

    And together, what we will
    Can be accomplished still....

  • @Finsirith
    @Finsirith 3 года назад +10

    "The Bonnie Ship the Diamond"--melody of the verse.

  • @TamingofSpyro
    @TamingofSpyro 6 лет назад +15

    Perfect music for the Falcon heavy launch

  • @adelaidedupont9017
    @adelaidedupont9017 5 лет назад +6

    #toastforunknownheroes - this is terrific!

  • @jamesverhoff1899
    @jamesverhoff1899 2 года назад +1

    The steps before, and the steps after. The adventure isn't done yet--the cleanup is ongoing.

  • @lynansheng
    @lynansheng 3 года назад +5

    Seriously considering using this for a SpaceX Starship montage. :)

  • @AluraHjaldisdottir
    @AluraHjaldisdottir 5 лет назад +17

    A nice song which made me think of the movie "hidden figures".

  • @HM2SGT
    @HM2SGT 3 месяца назад

    The Rhythm and the melody always remind me of The Body Ship the Diamond

  • @kathleenkaufmann2084
    @kathleenkaufmann2084 2 года назад +2

    This sounds really great sung at a world Con with a bunch of us doing harmony too. :)

  • @skyguy713
    @skyguy713 4 года назад +5

    Freedom for those in the East, step by step they will win that march.

  • @sabotabby3372
    @sabotabby3372 3 года назад +2

    Wasn't expecting an old wobbly song to be filked

  • @caroljohnson8027
    @caroljohnson8027 10 лет назад +71

    These ought to be played on public airways. Maybe it'd get national pride going again. A renewed manned space program would help the economy, as well.

    • @Zoie3x8
      @Zoie3x8 9 лет назад +4

      not with rockets, imo, but magnets.

    • @RVGmetallicasaw
      @RVGmetallicasaw 9 лет назад +9

      Oh magnets... the future of human technology. (Warfare: Magnetic armour and magnetically propelled bullets, potentially plasma weaponry as well. Transportation: Maglevs, Inter-planetary and Inter-stellar flight. Power: magnetically influenced kinetic generators and wind turbines. Industry: Magnetic mining, and construction. So much more as well.) To bad the force required to get a magnetically propelled aircraft off the ground would actually crush the craft, so for orbital stuff we will still need to rely on ballistics for the time being until we find or make something harder to make such crafts out of... we will also need to figure out how to actually build stuff in space. (in-orbit construction)

    • @quizzlie
      @quizzlie 8 лет назад +6

      +Metall Support your local mag-ball team!

    • @darrvenomfier790
      @darrvenomfier790 7 лет назад +6

      oh cool thing about one magnetic metal by the way, if you put iron in a vacuum and take another piece of iron and stick it to it they weld themselves together no weldor needed (and yes I spelled that right weldor is the machine that does the work a welder is the person who preforms the task)

    • @camohawk6703
      @camohawk6703 5 лет назад +5

      @@darrvenomfier790 only if they do not have an oxide layer. they need to be bare metal for it to work.

  • @PipPipperton
    @PipPipperton 2 месяца назад

    File under things that make me cry in public.

  • @jappperon7012
    @jappperon7012 3 года назад +2

    I was jamming to this with Perseverance landed on mars

  • @paulbyrnes2791
    @paulbyrnes2791 Месяц назад

    So true

  • @Rauri26
    @Rauri26 11 лет назад +6

    What, you are not for the privatization? Thought that was the GOP standard... privatize everything, Gov should pay for nothing....

    • @Paul-A01
      @Paul-A01 6 лет назад +7

      I prefer to just steal the money myself. Don't wait for the government to do it for you.

    • @fuzzy4461
      @fuzzy4461 Год назад +1

      @Leslie Fish based

  • @TheGlennsof
    @TheGlennsof 4 года назад +7

    Hurrah for Communism. (This song is basically an old Union song)

    • @Tula-cs1ef
      @Tula-cs1ef 3 года назад

      Wait for real?

    • @TheGlennsof
      @TheGlennsof 3 года назад +4

      @@Tula-cs1ef Yeah It's called step by step. It's almost exactly the chorus for this song. Here's a link ruclips.net/video/Fcw-Dgjid20/видео.html

    • @TheSkyline77
      @TheSkyline77 3 года назад

      @@Tula-cs1ef Yep. Fish was (is? She's gone a bit odd tbh) a hardcore Wobbly, she was in their house band for a long time. Firestorm is basically an ancom power fantasy album

    • @TheGlennsof
      @TheGlennsof 3 года назад +4

      @Leslie Fish Hi Leslie, I agonised over this reply for a long time (I'm assuming you're THE Leslie Fish). Perhaps Communism may have been the wrong term to use, due to the connotations of Maoism and Stalinism. When I said "communism" these were not the ideas that I hoped to invoke but those of the Wobblies and the International Workers. When I think communism, I think more of Marx's criticisms of our extant systems. Of course we don't need Marx to see that workers are being abused. I'm a (workers) unionist myself and I want to express my agreement with the workers and not geopolitical entities.

    • @alexandriayeates9792
      @alexandriayeates9792 2 года назад

      @Leslie Fish Ma'am nearly every wobbly I've ever met was a hardcore communist what are you talking about? Why else is the union card red? Like, the labor movement of the early 20th century is almost synonymous with leftism in the states of that time. Mind you, perhaps this is a phrasing difference, but tankies aren't taking communism from me.

  • @slider999a
    @slider999a 13 лет назад +1

    And with Obama it ends.

    • @horstweinert7204
      @horstweinert7204 7 лет назад +15

      yeah I remember when Obama disbanded NASA. o wait...

    • @rigel1088
      @rigel1088 6 лет назад +13

      >when you're a brainlet so you drag politics into a song about the space age

    • @gewuerzwanze5627
      @gewuerzwanze5627 3 года назад

      @@rigel1088 >when youre a brainlet and use green arrows outside of vietnamese rice farming forums
      But i agree with the sentiment

    • @gewuerzwanze5627
      @gewuerzwanze5627 3 года назад +1

      @@rigel1088 also the space race was as political as it gets